PDFWord

About & privacy

A converter that respects your documents

PDFWord was built on a simple idea: converting a file shouldn't mean handing it to a stranger. So we don't — everything happens in your browser.

How your privacy is protected

Traditional online converters upload your file to a server, process it there, and send a result back. That means your contracts, CVs, and private documents pass through someone else's computer. PDFWord works differently. The conversion engines — for reading PDFs, building Word files, and rendering PDFs — run as code inside your own browser. Your file is read from your disk into memory, transformed, and offered back to you as a download. It is never transmitted over the network.

How the tools work

For PDF to Word we read each page's text along with its font size, weight and style, then rebuild the document — headings, paragraphs, bold and italic, lists and alignment — as an editable .docx. Pages that are scanned images (no text layer) are rendered and embedded as pictures so they still look like the original. You can then perfect everything in a live editor before downloading as .docx or PDF. For Word to PDF we read the .docx into rich HTML — keeping headings, bold/italic, lists, tables and images — and lay that out into a faithful PDF. The Uzbek transliterator applies a carefully ordered modern letter mapping that handles digraphs and special characters in both directions.

Honest limitations

Be honest about the trade-offs: a PDF has a fixed layout while Word flows text, so a pixel-perfect editable copy is impossible — we reconstruct the most likely structure and give you an editor to fix the rest. Very complex multi-column layouts are simplified. Scanned PDFs have no text to extract, so for PDF to Word we embed each page as an image (the text won't be editable, but the document looks right); the PDF to Text tool can't read them at all. Password-protected files must be unlocked first. For the vast majority of everyday documents, the result is exactly what you need.

Built with

PDFWord processes documents entirely in your browser using open-source libraries — your files are never uploaded to a server. The only data we keep is an anonymous count of how many operations have been run.

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