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PDF to Text & Word Converter

Turn any PDF — including scans — into editable text or a real Word document. Layout preserved, 24 OCR languages, every page processed. Nothing is uploaded.

100% private

Your PDF never leaves the browser tab — safe for contracts, bank statements and ID documents.

Every page OCR'd

Scanned 200-page books are fine. Pick the language, press Extract, and stop whenever you like.

Truly free

No sign-up, no daily quota, no watermark, no file-size cap.

Key Features

Layout-preserving extraction: lines, paragraphs, indentation and column spacing are reconstructed instead of dumped as one blob

Auto-detects scanned or photographed PDFs and switches to OCR mode for you

OCR runs on every page (not just the first) in 24 languages including English, Hindi, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Tamil — combine two languages for mixed documents

Real Word .docx output (not renamed HTML), plus TXT and Markdown

Pick a page range, add per-page separators, find text inside the result, edit before downloading

Live progress with cancel — stop a 300-page OCR job any time and keep what has finished

Opens password-protected PDFs when you know the password

Word and character counts for every extraction

Private by design: the PDF, the OCR model and the result never leave your device

No file-size caps, watermarks, sign-ups or daily limits

How to convert a PDF to text or Word online

Extract editable text from any PDF, including scans, in your browser.

1

Upload the PDF

Drop the file on the page, click to browse, or paste it. The tool analyses it and tells you whether it is a text PDF or a scan.

2

Choose options

Keep the suggested mode, or switch between instant text extraction and OCR. For OCR, pick the document language. Optionally set a page range.

3

Extract

Click Extract. Watch the progress bar — you can cancel at any time and keep the finished pages.

4

Review

Read, search and edit the text directly in the result box. Toggle page separators on or off.

5

Download

Copy to the clipboard or save as Word (.docx), TXT or Markdown.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I convert a PDF to text for free?
Drop the PDF on this page. The tool reads the embedded text with PDF.js in your browser, rebuilds the line and paragraph structure, and shows an editable result you can copy or download as TXT, Markdown or Word. There is no upload, account or limit.
Can it extract text from a scanned PDF?
Yes. When a PDF has no embedded text (a scan or a photo), the tool detects it automatically and switches to OCR mode. The Tesseract OCR engine runs locally in your browser on every page you select, with a live progress bar. Choose the document language first — it makes a big difference to accuracy.
Which languages does the OCR support?
English, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Urdu, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and Indonesian. You can combine a second language for bilingual documents such as Hindi + English forms.
Is the Word file a real .docx?
Yes. The download is a genuine Office Open XML .docx with Calibri body text and page headings, generated entirely in your browser. It opens in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice and Pages without any "convert this file" warning.
Why does my PDF come out with jumbled text?
Some PDFs store text in a different order from how it looks (multi-column layouts, forms, text placed by design software). Switch "Text layout" between Preserve layout and Simple flow — one usually reads better. For PDFs that are really images of text, use OCR mode.
How accurate is the OCR?
On a clean 300 DPI scan with the right language selected, Tesseract typically reaches 95–99% character accuracy. Faded, skewed or handwritten pages score lower. Pages are rendered at roughly 2,000 px on the long edge and contrast-enhanced before recognition to help with faint scans.
Is my PDF uploaded to a server?
No. Everything — opening the PDF, extracting text, running OCR and building the Word file — happens inside your browser tab. The only network requests are to download the open-source libraries and OCR language data, which your browser then caches.
Can I convert a password-protected PDF?
If you know the password, yes: the tool will ask for it and then extract normally. It cannot bypass passwords you do not have.

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