PDF to Word Converter

There are two extraction routes and the tool picks between them by testing page one. If that page carries an embedded text layer, a genuine digital PDF, pdf.js getTextContent is used for every page and the text items are read straight out of the content stream. If it yields ten characters or fewer, the document is treated as a scan and each page is instead rendered to a canvas at 2x scale and run through Tesseract.js 4.0.2.

Whatever comes back is assembled with a --- Page N --- marker ahead of each page, previewed as the first thousand characters with live page, word and size counts, and offered as a download. That download is real RTF: a header declaring Times New Roman at 12pt, your paragraphs separated with par control words, braces and backslashes escaped, saved with a .doc extension so Word, LibreOffice and Pages all open it without a converter in between. Built-in extras. A .doc or .txt selector, a custom file name and page markers.

From a digital PDF the text is exactly what the file contains, at full fidelity and far faster and more accurately than any OCR could manage. From a clean 300 dpi scan, Tesseract typically returns readable English with a handful of errors per page, which is still better than retyping, and it happens inside your browser rather than on somebody else's server.

What you do next matters. The .doc carries text, so pasting it into Word gives you flowing paragraphs to re-style rather than a formatted document. Headings do not arrive as headings, and the page markers are only a hint about where a break belonged, so delete them once the content is in place.

This is text extraction, not a layout rebuild. Tables come out as runs of cells in reading order, multi-column pages can interleave, and images, charts, headers, footers, footnotes, fonts and styling are not carried into the Word file at all. If you need the page to look the same, go the other way and export a PDF instead of round-tripping.

Two decisions are made from page one alone. In a mixed file where the first page is typed but later pages are scans, those scanned pages come back blank, and OCR loads the English model only, so accented and non-Latin text degrades badly. Long scans are slow because pages are processed one after another, and input above 50MB is refused.

A receipt or agreement you must re-key. Convert here, open the .doc in Word, strip the page markers, reapply the two or three styles it needs, a title and a readable body size, and save as .docx. If it then has to go back out as a fixed document, produce that with Word to PDF so the copy you send is a real PDF.

If all you want is raw text to feed somewhere else, copy from the preview instead of downloading, or route the file through Document Converter to reach HTML, JSON or CSV from the same extraction in one step.