Question 1

Is my PDF uploaded to a server?

Accepted Answer

No. Text extraction with pdf.js and .docx generation with the docx library happen entirely in your browser. The file is never sent to any external server.

Question 2

Does this tool preserve the layout, images, and tables of the original PDF?

Accepted Answer

No. It only extracts the text from each page; the visual layout, images, tables, columns, and fonts of the original PDF aren't reproduced in the Word document. The result is a document with one paragraph per detected line of text and a page break for each PDF page, meant for reusing the content, not for visually recreating the document. If you need to preserve the exact layout, you'll have to recreate it manually in Word from the extracted text.

Question 3

Does it work with scanned or image-based PDFs?

Accepted Answer

No. This tool can only extract text from PDFs that already contain a real text layer (not an image of the text). If your PDF is a scan without a text layer, the resulting Word document will be empty or nearly empty, since this tool doesn't perform OCR (optical character recognition).

Question 4

How is it decided where each line break or paragraph goes?

Accepted Answer

pdf.js reports when a line of text ends within each page of the original PDF, and that information is used to split the content into separate paragraphs. It's a reasonable reconstruction of the text, not an exact copy of the original document's reading flow, so in documents with complex layouts (columns, tables) the line order may not exactly match what you'd see reading the PDF.

Question 5

Can I edit the generated .docx document in Word or Google Docs?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The downloaded file is a standard .docx, fully compatible with Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, and Google Docs, and you can edit it normally once opened.

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