PDF to Word

Most PDFs you need to edit started life in Word or Google Docs anyway — the PDF is just the export format. Converting back to .docx gives you the editable version your colleagues, lawyers, or clients sent over the wall.

The converter handles two distinct cases. Born-digital PDFs (anything that was exported from Word, Pages, Google Docs, Markdown, or a similar text-first tool) keep their text as text — you'll get a Word document where every paragraph, heading, list and table is editable, with reasonable layout fidelity. Scanned PDFs (phone photos of a paper contract, output from an office multifunction) are routed through OCR first: each page is read as text and re-typed into the Word document. Layout fidelity is lower for scans — a sentence that wrapped across two columns in the original may end up as one long line — but the text comes through cleanly.

We output .docx by default (Word 2007 and later, also opens cleanly in Google Docs, LibreOffice, Pages). The legacy .doc format (Word 97–2004) is available as an option when you need to send to someone on a very old setup.

Fonts: where the original PDF embedded its fonts, we match them exactly in the output. Where it didn't (PDF can subset fonts for size), we substitute Calibri or the closest available match. Visual style usually survives intact; if a particular heading style breaks, fix it once in Word and apply via Styles.

Tables: simple grid tables convert cleanly. Complex tables with merged cells, nested borders, or rotated text may need a manual touch-up — but you get a real table object, not a flat image, so the editing is straightforward.