PDF to Word converter
Convert PDF to an editable Word document in your browser. Scanned pages are read by an AI text-recognition model that runs on your own device — nothing is uploaded.
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Accepts .pdf · Up to 20 files at a time · up to 80 MB each "Upload" and "download" here mean your browser reading a file from this device and writing one back to it. Nothing is sent to a server — open your browser's network panel and watch: no request carries your file.
If the PDF is a scan, the characters are read on your device. That needs a one-time 21 MB model download, then a few seconds per page. Accuracy is good but not guaranteed — stamps, handwriting and badly skewed pages come out worse.
FAQ
Why does the Word document not look like the PDF?
It rebuilds more than the text: a table the PDF drew with rules comes back as a Word table, pictures are placed where they sat on the page, and headings, bold, centring, text colour and the coloured bands behind it all survive. What it cannot rebuild is what the PDF never wrote down. A multi-column page is read in the wrong order, because a PDF stores glyph runs in the order they were drawn rather than the order they are read. A table drawn without rules leaves no grid to find, so it comes back as paragraphs. And a scanned page goes through text recognition, which returns words and nothing else.
Does it work on scanned documents?
Yes. If the pages carry no text layer, an AI recognition model runs locally on your device. The first scan triggers a one-time model download of about 21 MB, after which it is cached; each page then takes a few seconds.
How accurate is the recognition?
Around 98% of characters on clean printed documents in our own testing, Chinese and English alike. Real scans are harder than test material: stamps, handwriting, low resolution and a page fed in crooked all make it worse. Always read the result against the original before relying on it.
Is my document uploaded for the AI OCR?
No. The AI models run inside your browser, which is the entire point of doing it this way. Every other converter that offers OCR sends the file to a server; this one downloads the model to you instead.
Are headings and page breaks preserved?
Headings are guessed: lines set noticeably larger than the body text become Word headings, ranked by size. Page breaks from the original are inserted so the document keeps its pagination. Both are inferences, and both are occasionally wrong.
Why is the file size limit only 80 MB?
Because pages are rendered into memory as full-resolution bitmaps, where cost is measured in pixels rather than in how well the PDF compressed. That is a much lower ceiling than video conversions get. A long scanned document can exceed it.
Can I get the plain text instead?
Yes — convert to TXT. It takes the same route, including the recognition step for scans, and returns the text without the Word formatting, which is often what you actually wanted.
Is it really free?
Yes — every conversion on this site, with no account, no watermark and no daily cap. The work happens on your own device, so there is no server bill for us to pass on to you.
Do I need to install anything?
No. It runs in any modern browser, on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. There is nothing to download and nothing to sign up for, and once the page has loaded it keeps working with the network switched off.
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