Turn a PDF into a Word document whose text you can edit. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
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Drop PDF files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. Open Options first if you want to change the defaults. The work happens in this tab.
Save the DOCX, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The PDF to DOCX converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your documents are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
A PDF is made for reading, so its text is hard to change. This writes the words, headings, bold and italic, and pictures of each page into a DOCX that Word, Google Docs and LibreOffice open as editable text. It keeps every word but not the layout: each styled piece of text becomes a paragraph, columns become one column and a bulleted list comes out as a table. Use it to edit and reuse the content, not for a pixel-perfect copy.
The defaults suit most files. Under Options you can set or supply a password.
A password-protected PDF needs its password, entered under Options; without it the file is refused.
PDF fixes a document's layout so it looks identical on every screen and printer. That makes it the default for forms, invoices and anything sent to print, and also what makes it awkward to edit.
Opens in Every browser, phone and computer
PDF converterDOCX is the format Microsoft Word has saved by default since Office 2007. Inside it is a ZIP archive of XML files describing text, styles and images. Layout can shift between Word, Google Docs and LibreOffice because each lays the text out itself.
Opens in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Pages, LibreOffice
DOCX converter| PDFPDF document | DOCXWord document | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Portable Document Format | Office Open XML Document |
| Type | Fixed-layout document | Editable word-processor document |
| Compression | Mixed: text is stored as text, images keep their own compression | ZIP container of XML |
| Introduced | 1993, by Adobe (an ISO standard since 2008) | 2007, by Microsoft |
| Opens in | Every browser, phone and computer | Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Pages, LibreOffice |
| Best for | Documents that must look the same everywhere, and printing | Documents that will be edited again |
| File extension | .pdf, .ai | .docx |
No. The words, headings, bold and italic text and the pictures are kept, but positions are not. Text in columns comes out as one column, a bulleted list becomes a table, and spacing follows Word's defaults rather than the page. Expect to tidy the layout before you print it.
Often. A table becomes a Word table when the program that made the PDF wrote its cells row by row, as LibreOffice and Chrome do. Some PDF writers store cells in another order, and then the table's text comes out as separate paragraphs.
The PDF is probably a scan: a photo of a page with no text in it. There is nothing to edit until the text has been recognised. Run it through OCR PDF first, then convert the result to Word.
Yes, if you know the password: enter it in Options. The password is used on your device to open the file and is never sent anywhere.
No. The PDF to DOCX conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Text is kept. Formatting carries over only as far as DOCX supports it.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.