PDF to Word Converter
Turn a PDF into a Word document you can edit — headings, lists and tables included.
Columns, text boxes, forms and decorative layouts are rebuilt approximately — check the document before you send it.
Preview the structure
About the PDF to Word Converter
Open a PDF and get a Word document (.docx) you can edit in Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, Google Docs or WPS. The text is rebuilt from where each piece sits on the page: larger type becomes headings, bold and italic stay bold and italic, bullets and numbers become real lists, web links stay clickable, ruled and column-aligned tables become Word tables, and pictures are copied in.
Choose Editable paragraphs to get text that re-flows when you edit it, or Exact line breaks to keep every line ending where it was in the PDF. Everything happens in your browser — the PDF is not uploaded.
How to use it
- Drop a PDF onto the box above, or tap Choose a PDF. If it is password-protected, enter the password.
- Pick Editable paragraphs or Exact line breaks, and untick anything you don’t want: page breaks, tables, pictures, headers and footers.
- Optionally limit the conversion to some Pages, for example
1-5or3, 7-9. - Press Convert to Word, check the summary (and the structure preview if you like), then press Download .docx.
Examples
A 22 pt bold title, 15 pt section titles, body text with bold words, a bullet list, a numbered list, a ruled table and a logo
Heading 1, Heading 2 paragraphs, Normal paragraphs with bold runs, a bulleted list, a numbered list starting at the same number, a Word table with a repeating header row, and the logo as a picture
The quarterly results were better than expected in all regions.
Editable: “The quarterly results were better than expected in all regions.” Exact: the same three lines, joined by line breaks
Common uses
- Editing a contract, letter or form that you only have as a PDF.
- Updating last year’s report or proposal without retyping it.
- Copying a long document into Word with its headings, so the navigation pane and table of contents work.
- Reusing the tables of a PDF in a Word document, with real rows and columns instead of tabs.
How the document is rebuilt
PDFs only store positioned text, lines and images (ISO 32000-1:2008, §9.10). The converter reads them with pdf.js, then:
- groups text into lines, columns and paragraphs from the gaps between them;
- marks a paragraph as a heading when its type is clearly larger than the body text — the largest size becomes Heading 1, the next Heading 2, then Heading 3;
- turns lines starting with •, –, 1., a) or (iv) into list items, keeping where numbered lists start;
- keeps links from the PDF’s link areas and turns typed web addresses into links;
- writes right-to-left text (Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu) as right-to-left paragraphs, in reading order;
- rebuilds tables from ruling lines (merged cells included) or from clearly aligned columns;
- copies pictures at their original resolution when possible, limited to 2,400 pixels on the longest side — photos as JPEG, logos, diagrams and screenshots as lossless PNG.
The file is written as standard Office Open XML (ECMA-376), the .docx format that Word, LibreOffice, Google Docs and other word processors open.
Scanned PDFs
A scanned page is a picture of text, so there is nothing to edit. Pages like that are detected and added to the Word file as pictures, with a note. To get editable text, first make the PDF searchable with OCR PDF, then convert the result here.
Limitations
- Multi-column layouts, text boxes, sidebars and forms convert only approximately: text ends up in reading order, not in the same boxes.
- Exact fonts are not embedded. The document names the PDF’s font families (Arial, Calibri, Times New Roman…); Word substitutes any you don’t have.
- Text colours, highlighting, underline, shapes, charts and backgrounds are not carried over; charts drawn as vector graphics are lost.
- Equations, footnote links and tables of contents become plain text.
- Scanned pages are added as pictures; run OCR first to make them editable.
Privacy
Everything happens in your browser. What you enter or open here is not uploaded or stored by MySmartCoPilot.
Frequently asked questions
Is my PDF uploaded?
No. The PDF is read and the Word file is created inside your browser, on your device. Nothing about the file is sent to a server.
Why does my converted document look different from the PDF?
A PDF fixes every character to an exact spot; a Word document flows text into lines and pages. The converter rebuilds structure — headings, paragraphs, lists, tables — rather than freezing positions, so line endings and page breaks can move, and missing fonts are replaced. Choose Exact line breaks if the look matters more than easy editing.
My PDF is a scan. Can I convert it?
Not directly — a scan contains a picture of the text, not text. Run it through OCR PDF first to add a text layer, then convert that PDF here. Without OCR, scanned pages are added to the Word file as pictures.
Can I convert only part of a PDF?
Yes. Type the pages in Pages, for example 2-4, 9. Each PDF page starts on a new Word page unless you untick that option.
Will it open in Google Docs or LibreOffice?
Yes. The file is a standard .docx (Office Open XML), which Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, Google Docs, Apple Pages and WPS Office all open.