# PDF to Word

> Extract the text from a PDF into an editable Word document, without uploading the file.

Canonical: https://host-tools.com/tools/pdf-to-word/

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## What does this tool do?

Takes the text out of a PDF and writes it into a Word document you can edit. You choose which pages,
and you get a `.docx` with one paragraph per line of the original, with a page break where the pages
break.

## What you get, and what you do not

**You get:** the text, editable, in reading order, in a real Word file.

**You do not get:** the layout. A PDF does not store paragraphs, columns or tables — it stores pieces
of text with coordinates. Rebuilding the design from that is guesswork, and a tool that promises an
“identical Word file” is inventing the parts it cannot know. Here the text is exact and the design is
gone, which is the honest version of the same trade.

## If your PDF is a scan

A scanned PDF has no text inside: it is a photograph of a page. This tool says so plainly instead of
handing you an empty document. For those, the right tool is **PDF to JPG**, and then whatever you use
for recognising characters.

## Keep in mind

Nothing is uploaded: the text is read and the Word file is written in your browser, and the original
PDF is not touched.