PDF → Word
Convert a PDF to an editable .docx. Text-based PDFs convert best; scanned PDFs need OCR first.
For scanned PDFs, run OCR first.
About this tool
Convert a PDF into an editable .docx Word document. Best results for text-based PDFs (reports, articles, contracts) - layout fidelity drops on PDFs with complex multi-column designs, custom fonts, or heavy use of tables.
Privvert extracts paragraphs, basic formatting, and embedded images, then rebuilds them as a Word document you can edit in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice or Pages. Runs locally - your document never goes to a server.
Features
- Outputs .docx (Word/Google Docs/LibreOffice/Pages)
- Preserves paragraphs and basic formatting
- Extracts embedded images and re-inserts them
- Detects headings (heuristic, font-size based)
- Bullet and numbered list detection
- Browser-only - files never uploaded
- Free and unlimited
- Falls back to a clean text-only DOCX when the source has no extractable text
How to use it
- Drop in your PDF.
- Click Convert.
- Download the .docx file.
Everything happens inside your browser using JavaScript and WebAssembly. Your files are never uploaded to a server, never stored, and never seen by us.
Frequently asked questions
Simple text PDFs convert cleanly. Complex layouts (multi-column papers, designed brochures) often need manual cleanup in Word - that's true of every PDF-to-Word converter.
No - scans are images of text, not actual text. Run OCR first, then convert.
Standard fonts (Times, Arial, Helvetica) carry over cleanly. Custom or embedded-only fonts get substituted with the closest match.
Embedded raster images are extracted and re-inserted at their position. Vector graphics may be flattened to images.
For text-based PDFs the result is close - paragraphs, headings and lists usually survive intact. Complex layouts with columns, footnotes, callouts or precisely-positioned text boxes are simplified, since Word's layout model isn't a perfect match for PDF's. For pixel-perfect fidelity, keep the PDF or convert to images.
Only if the scan has already been run through OCR (so the file contains real text underneath the images). Pure image-based scans need OCR first - run them through the OCR tool, then convert.