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Convert PDF to Word or Text

Add your PDF, extract the text, then download it as .txt or .docx.

Text is extracted directly in your browser: the file is never sent to a server.

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PDF to Text or Word

Drop your PDF here, or click to choose a file
One PDF file at a time

Extracted text (preview)

What this tool is for

This tool extracts the actual text stored inside a PDF so you can save it as a .txt file (plain text) or a .docx file (compatible with Word, Google Docs, and LibreOffice). It saves you from retyping a document's content by hand.

Practical use cases

  • Editing an old document: get a PDF back into an editable Word file when the original source file is lost.
  • Quoting or repurposing content: pull text out of a report to reuse in another document.
  • Quick edits: convert a PDF to .docx just to fix a typo or reformat a paragraph.

How to use this tool

  1. Add the PDF file you want to convert.
  2. Click “Extract text”: a preview appears.
  3. Download the result as .txt or .docx, whichever you need.

Key benefits

  • Fast extraction of all the text, page by page.
  • Two output formats depending on what you need.
  • Nothing is sent to a server — everything happens in your browser.

Practical tips

  • This conversion recovers the text but not the original layout (columns, tables, images) — for a document where formatting matters, a quick review after conversion is a good idea.
  • If the preview shows little or no text, the PDF is probably a scan or image — try the PDF to JPG tool to view it instead.
  • Choose .docx if you plan to keep editing the text, or .txt if you just need the raw content.

Good to know

The generated .docx is a simple document made of text paragraphs, with no advanced formatting or images. For a scanned PDF — an image of text rather than real text — extraction can't recover anything; that's an inherent technical limit of scanned documents, not a bug in the tool.

Common problems

An empty or near-empty result almost always means the source PDF is a scanned image. If words run together oddly in the output, the original PDF may use an unusual layout (like multi-column text) that doesn't map cleanly to a linear text flow.

Frequently asked questions

The scanned PDF produces an empty file — why?+

A scanned PDF is an image of text, not real text: there's nothing to extract without optical character recognition (OCR), which this tool doesn't offer yet.

Is the layout preserved in the .docx?+

No, only the text is recovered, as simple paragraphs.

Should I choose .txt or .docx?+

Choose .docx if you want to keep editing the text in a word processor, or .txt if you just need the plain content.

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