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Free PDF to Word Converter Online — Extract Text from PDF
Extract text from any PDF and download it as a Word .doc, plain .txt or HTML file. Preview and edit the extracted text before downloading. Supports page-by-page extraction, text cleanup, and shows word and character counts. Fully browser-based.
- ✓Extracts text from any text-based PDF instantly
- ✓Page-by-page text preview with editing capability
- ✓Download as .doc (Word), .txt or .html
- ✓Text cleanup: remove extra spaces and empty lines
- ✓Word, character and page count statistics
- ✓Your PDFs never leave your device — 100% private
Clean up whitespace
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Drop a PDF here or click to browse
Works with text-based PDFs · Not scanned images
How to Convert PDF to Word
1
Choose output format
Select .doc for Word compatibility, .txt for plain text, or .html for web use. Enable whitespace cleanup for cleaner output.
2
Upload your PDF
Drag and drop a text-based PDF. The tool uses PDF.js to extract text directly in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
3
Review and edit
Read the extracted text in Full or Page-by-page view. Edit directly in the text area to fix any extraction artifacts.
4
Download
Click Download to get your .doc, .txt or .html file ready for use in Word, Google Docs or any text editor.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Which types of PDFs can be converted?+
This tool extracts text from text-based PDFs — PDFs that were created digitally from Word documents, web pages, or other software. Scanned PDFs (images of paper pages) require OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to extract text, which is a different process. If you upload a scanned PDF and get empty text, try our Image to Text (OCR) tool instead, which uses Tesseract.js to process image-based pages.
Will the formatting be preserved?+
Basic text content is extracted faithfully, but complex formatting like tables, multi-column layouts, headers and footers, and decorative elements cannot be perfectly reconstructed. The extracted text reflects the reading order of the PDF's text objects. For .doc output, the text is wrapped in a basic Word document structure with standard paragraph formatting. For perfect formatting preservation, a desktop tool like Adobe Acrobat Pro is needed.
What is the difference between .doc, .txt and .html output?+
.txt is plain text with no formatting — the simplest and most compatible format. .doc wraps the text in a Word-compatible XML structure, preserving basic paragraph breaks and allowing the file to open in Microsoft Word or Google Docs for further editing. .html creates a web-viewable file with paragraph and page break tags, suitable for pasting into web editors or content management systems.
Can I edit the extracted text before downloading?+
Yes. The extracted text appears in an editable text area. You can correct any OCR-style artifacts, fix line breaks, add or remove content before downloading. This is especially useful for cleaning up PDFs with unusual text encoding or non-standard fonts that may cause minor extraction errors.
Why are some characters showing as garbled or replaced with '?' marks?+
This happens when a PDF uses embedded fonts with non-standard character encodings or uses special symbols not in the standard character set. The PDF specification allows fonts to use custom encoding tables, which can make text extraction ambiguous. In these cases, the extracted text may have placeholder characters. For highly accurate text recovery from such PDFs, a specialised desktop tool may give better results.