UlvixorPDF to Word Converter
Upload a PDF and get an editable Word (.docx) document with the text extracted from each page, ready to download. Extraction uses pdf.js and the .docx generation uses the docx library, both running entirely in your browser, without uploading your file to any server.
How it works
- Select a PDF file from your device using the file picker.
- pdf.js extracts the text from each page, reconstructing lines from the position of the PDF's text fragments.
- Each detected line becomes a paragraph in the Word document, and a page break is inserted before the first paragraph of each new page.
- The docx library builds a valid .docx file from those paragraphs, directly in the browser.
- Download the resulting Word document with one click.
Use cases
- Reuse the content of a PDF (a report, an article, a contract) in an editable Word document.
- Extract text from a PDF to rewrite, translate, or adapt it without retyping the whole content.
- Recover the text of a PDF when you no longer have the original Word file.
- Prepare a PDF's content to paste into another editor or document management system.
Use cases
- Reuse the content of a PDF (a report, an article, a contract) in an editable Word document.
- Extract text from a PDF to rewrite, translate, or adapt it without retyping the whole content.
- Recover the text of a PDF when you no longer have the original Word file.
- Prepare a PDF's content to paste into another editor or document management system.
Common mistakes
- Uploading a scanned PDF (a photo or image of the text) expecting a Word document with the extracted text.This tool only extracts text from PDFs that already contain a real text layer; it doesn't perform OCR. If your PDF is a scan with no text layer, the result will come out empty or nearly empty.
- Expecting the Word document to preserve the original PDF's visual layout, images, and tables.The tool only extracts the text and organizes it into paragraphs with a page break for each PDF page; layout, images, and tables aren't reproduced. It's meant for reusing the content, not recreating the document visually.
- Expecting the reading order to be exact in a PDF with columns or complex tables.Paragraph order is reconstructed from the position pdf.js reports, which is a reasonable approximation but doesn't always exactly match the original reading flow in complex layouts. Review and reorder the text in Word if needed.
Frequently asked questions
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Alternatives
Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Word (Open → select the PDF) can also convert PDF to Word, usually with better layout preservation. This tool is useful when you just need to quickly recover the text, with no Acrobat to install or Word to open, and no document uploaded to any server.