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How to convert PDF to Word (free)

Turn a PDF into an editable Word document (.docx) — in your browser, with no upload and no email gate. The conversion runs entirely on your device.

1. Open the PDF

The fastest route is the PDF to Word page: pick a file and the .docx downloads automatically. Or open the document in the editor first if you want to edit or check it before converting.

2. Export to Word

In the editor, choose Export → Export Word (.docx) (also available as the Word button in the sidebar). The editor extracts the document's text and builds a .docx file named after your PDF, which downloads immediately. Open it in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice, or any other word processor.

3. Scanned PDF? OCR it first

The conversion works from the PDF's text, so it works best on text-based PDFs. A scanned PDF is only pictures of pages — there is no text to extract until you run OCR. Run Document → OCR this page on each scanned page first to add a searchable text layer, then export to Word. Full walkthrough: How to OCR a PDF.

What to expect: PDF is a page-layout format, not a word-processing format — it stores positioned text, not paragraphs and styles. The export gives you the document's text in an editable form; complex layouts (multi-column pages, tables, floating images) won't reproduce exactly. For small wording fixes it's often easier to edit the PDF directly — see How to edit a PDF.

Other export formats

From the same Export menu you can also export plain text (.txt), pages as PNG or JPG images, or extract the images embedded in the document.

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More guides: OCR a PDF · Edit a PDF · Compress a PDF