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Convert a PDF to Word and other formats
Read a PDF back as text and structure, and save it as a Word document, an Excel workbook, a PowerPoint presentation, OpenDocument text, spreadsheet or presentation, rich text, an e-book, LaTeX, CSV, Markdown, a web page or plain text. This rebuilds the document from its text; it does not copy the page's exact look.
Saving as text, Markdown or a web page is free at any length, and in every other format up to 5 pages. Longer documents in those formats are part of Pro. Pricing
How to do it
- Open your PDF. For a scan, run Tools, Recognise text in scans first.
- Open More ways to export (the arrow next to Download) and choose Convert to Word, text and more.
- Pick the format.
You do not have to take our word for it
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Watch the network
The "Nothing is uploaded" button in the app opens a list of every other site the page has contacted since you opened it, and how often, taken from the browser's own record. Your browser's developer tools show every request, this site's own included.
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Pull the plug
Once the app has loaded, turn off your network and keep working. Text recognition, the document converter and the handwriting fonts work offline too after their first use.
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Redaction that removes
A page with something blacked out is saved as a picture of itself, so the text under the box is gone, and every redacted page is checked before the file is saved.
Questions
- Does it keep the exact layout?
- No. The words carry over, and headings, lists and tables where they can be recognised, which is not always; the exact positions on the page do not.
- What page size do Word files get?
- The size of the PDF's first page, for the whole document: a Letter PDF gives a Letter document, a landscape one a landscape document.
- What about a scanned PDF?
- Its pages are pictures, so recognise their text first with Recognise text, then convert.
- Is the redacted text in the result?
- No. The whole document is converted as it would download, so text under redactions is gone from the result too.
- Is it free?
- Saving as text, Markdown or a web page is free at any length, and in every other format up to 5 pages. Longer documents in those formats are part of Pro.