How to convert PDF to Word

PDF is designed for consistent display, while Word is designed for editing. Conversion therefore requires reconstruction rather than a simple file extension change.

Text-based PDFs

If text can be selected in the PDF, extraction can recover the words and paragraphs. Preserving columns, tables and exact spacing is a harder task.

Scanned PDFs

Scanned pages contain images rather than characters. OCR is required to recognize the text before an editable document can be created.

Check the result

Always review headings, tables, page breaks, footnotes and special characters after conversion.

Try the PDF to Word tool for text extraction.