PDF converters: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images and text
Turn PDFs into editable Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, images, text, Markdown and EPUB, pull out tables, links and highlights, and make scans searchable.
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Go to the 14 toolsGetting a PDF back into something you can edit
For office workers, accountants, students and publishers holding a PDF they need to change: a report to edit in Word, a statement or a table to analyse in Excel, slides to present again, pages to post as images, or a book to read on an e-reader.
How to choose
Pick the format you need at the end:
Documents to edit: PDF to Word Converter, PDF to PowerPoint (PPTX) and PDF to Markdown Converter.
Numbers to work with: PDF to Excel Converter, PDF Table to Excel / CSV and Bank Statement PDF to Excel / CSV.
Text: PDF to Text Extractor, and OCR PDF when the PDF is a scan with no text inside.
Pictures: PDF to JPG Converter for whole pages and Extract Images from PDF for the pictures in them.
Reading and sharing: PDF to EPUB Converter and PDF Flipbook Maker.
What readers left behind: Extract Highlights & Comments from PDF and Extract Links from PDF.
A PDF records where each letter sits on the page, not where a paragraph or a table cell begins, so complex layouts may need tidying after conversion.
The main tools, compared
| Tool | When to pick it | What you give it | What you get | Works offline | Stays on your device |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PDF to Word Converter Pro tool | Rebuilds the pages of a PDF as a Word document with editable paragraphs, headings, tables and pictures, keeping links live. | Free preview: the first pages of the converted document (up to 2) as watermarked page images, with a summary of the whole file | No | Yes | |
| PDF to Excel Converter Pro tool | Finds the tables in a PDF and puts each one on its own sheet of a workbook, with numbers kept as numbers. | Free preview: a summary and the first rows of the result (up to 10; a single row is shown with its results hidden) | No | Yes | |
| PDF Table to Excel / CSV Pro tool | Pulls tables out of a PDF into Excel or CSV and tidies them, reading dates and amounts in the order your country writes them. | Free preview: a summary and the first rows of the result (up to 10; a single row is shown with its results hidden) | No | Yes | |
| Bank Statement PDF to Excel / CSV Premium tool | Turns a bank statement PDF into a checked table of transactions with dates, descriptions, amounts and balances for Excel. | Free preview: a summary and the first rows of the result (up to 10; a single row is shown with its results hidden) | No | Yes | |
| PDF to Text Extractor Pro tool | Extracts the plain text of a PDF page by page, rejoining words that a line break had split with a hyphen. | Free preview: the first words of the extracted text (up to 100), with its page, word and character counts | No | Yes | |
| OCR PDF (Make Scanned PDFs Searchable) Pro tool | Recognises the letters on scanned pages and adds a text layer, or hands back the text alone, so the document can be searched and copied. | PDF, Image or photo | Free preview: the first words of the recognised text (up to 100) and the first pages (up to 3) as watermarked page images, with a summary of the whole file | No | Yes |
| PDF to JPG Converter (JPG & PNG) Pro tool | Saves the pages you choose as PNG or JPG images at a resolution you set, for posting, slides or previews. | Free preview: the first page images (up to 3) at preview size with a MySmartCoPilot watermark, a full-resolution detail of larger pages, and the size of every image | No | Yes | |
| PDF to PowerPoint (PPTX) Pro tool | Converts each PDF page into a slide of a PPTX file so a deck that only exists as a PDF can be presented again. | Free preview: the first slides of the presentation (up to 2) as watermarked images with their speaker notes, and a summary of the whole file | No | Yes |
Worked example: rejoining words split at the end of a line
A PDF of meeting notes has three printed lines: “Prepare the docu-”, “ments before the meet-” and “ing starts.” Copying it gives broken words.
A PDF stores each printed line on its own, so a word hyphenated at a line end arrives in two pieces, such as docu- and ments.
The extractor joins a line that ends in a hyphen with the first part of the next line, so the first line becomes “Prepare the documents”.
It does the same for meet- and ing, so the second line becomes “before the meeting”.
The text now reads “Prepare the documents”, “before the meeting”, “starts.”, ready to search or paste without stray hyphens.
Questions
Why does the converted Word file not look exactly like the PDF?
A PDF fixes every letter to a position on the page, while Word flows text into paragraphs. Simple pages convert closely; columns, text boxes and unusual fonts may need adjusting afterwards.
Can a scanned PDF be converted to Word or Excel?
Only after OCR has read its letters, since a scan holds pictures of the pages. Run OCR first, then convert the searchable result.
Will a bank statement keep its numbers right?
The statement converter keeps amounts and balances as numbers and checks the table it builds; still compare its totals with the statement before you rely on them.
Is my PDF uploaded?
The converters read the file you open inside your browser; a tool that needs to fetch anything, such as a language for OCR, says so on its own page.
Start with these
- Bank Statement PDF to Excel / CSV Free preview: a summary and the first rows of the result (up to 10; a single row is shown with its results hidden)
- PDF to Word Converter Turn a PDF into a Word document you can edit — headings, lists and tables included.
- PDF to JPG Converter (JPG & PNG) Turn PDF pages into sharp PNG or JPG images, right in your browser.
More tools here
- PDF to Excel Converter Turn tables in a PDF into a spreadsheet — columns you can fix, numbers that add up.
- PDF to PowerPoint (PPTX) Every page becomes a slide — a sharp picture of the page, with its text in the notes.
- PDF Table to Excel / CSV Box the table once — get every page of it as one clean spreadsheet.
- PDF to Text Extractor Pull clean text out of a PDF — in reading order or with its layout kept.
- OCR PDF (Make Scanned PDFs Searchable) Recognise the text in scans and photos — and get a searchable PDF, plain text or hOCR.
- Extract Images from PDF Get every picture out of a PDF at its original quality — nothing is uploaded.
- PDF to Markdown Converter Turn a PDF into Markdown or HTML — headings, lists, tables, code and pictures included.
- Extract Links from PDF See where every link in a PDF goes, without visiting a single one.
- PDF Flipbook Maker (page-flip HTML viewer for catalogues) Make a page-turning flipbook from any PDF — yours to host, with no account and no expiry.
- Extract Highlights & Comments from PDF Pull every highlight and comment out of an annotated PDF, grouped by page or colour.
- PDF to EPUB Converter Make a PDF readable on a phone or e-reader: text that reflows, chapters and a cover.
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