Convert PDF to Word

A PDF is designed to be read, not rewritten. That is fine until a colleague sends you a contract with a wrong figure in it, or you need to reuse a table from a report and there is no original document anywhere. Converting the PDF to Word gives you the text back in a form you can actually edit — and this online converter does it in a few seconds, without Adobe Acrobat, without a subscription and without creating an account.

The conversion does more than pull out raw text. Headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, columns and embedded images are rebuilt in the Word file, so the document you open in Microsoft Word, LibreOffice or Google Docs looks like the PDF you started from instead of a wall of unformatted lines. You can then change the wording, update figures in a table, restyle headings and save the result — and when you are done, convert it straight back with the Word to PDF tool.

One thing to keep in mind: the quality of the result depends on the PDF. Files that were exported from Word, Excel or a layout program convert almost perfectly, because the text is still stored as text. A PDF made by photographing or scanning paper contains images of letters rather than letters, so the layout will come across but the text may not be editable everywhere. The tool is free with no daily limit, files are uploaded over an encrypted connection and deleted from the server automatically after conversion.