Convert PDFs and scans to editable Word

Real paragraphs and tables, never floating text boxes. One shared credit pool, limits per member and usage reports.

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No account or card required · PDF, JPG or PNG up to 50 MB · scans welcome · not password-protected

Advanced options Optional

Your free page uses the standard settings. On the result screen you can still turn on Keep page breaks before downloading. With a free account you can also choose it before converting.

Files from your free page are deleted 24 hours after you convert it. Scanned and complex pages are read by Microsoft.

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9 real scans compared: 0 floating frames or text boxes in our Word files, 442 frames and 16 text boxes in a leading desktop OCR program’s.

from $9 a month

A real conversion, unedited

A scanned 1993 form from a public archive: typed fields, a handwritten note, tick boxes and a blacked-out number. This is exactly what came back.

The scanned form: Quality Improvement Suggestion, with typed fields, a blacked-out Social Security number, a boxed quality-coordinator section, a typed suggestion, a handwritten note and empty tick boxes.
Before: the scan, an image with no selectable text
The converted form open in Microsoft Word: the same title, logos, fields, suggestion, numbered list, handwritten note as typed text and tick boxes.
After: the .docx opened in Microsoft Word

The handwritten note, close up

Close-up of the scan: a handwritten note over two lines, the Profit Improvement label, and the Implement row with three empty tick boxes for Yes, No and Pending.
In the scan
Close-up of the same lines in Word: the handwritten note as one line of typed text beginning with hate:, then Profit Improvement, and Implement with three empty tick boxes.
In Word: the handwriting as typed text you can edit, and real tick boxes
What came through, and what needed fixing

Came through as editable Word

  • The handwritten note as typed text
  • The blacked-out number as “[Redacted]”, so nothing hidden is guessed
  • The handwritten box entries: 6/21/93, 93-0307 and EQPR
  • The tick boxes as “☐ Yes ☐ No ☐ Pending”, and the two solutions as a real numbered list
  • The title in Word's Title style, the fields in tables, both logos kept as pictures, and no text boxes or floating frames

Needed a quick fix by hand

  • In the handwritten note, “Note:” was read as “hate:” and “Scott Appleton” as “scott appleton”
  • “(Sign & Print Names)” became “Hames”, and two opening brackets became “[”
  • The form's lines for writing on are gone, and section labels are plain text, not Word headings
  • The font is Times New Roman instead of the scan's typewriter font

Check it yourself: · The Social Security number was blacked out on the scan before converting.

How does it compare? See this scan and 8 more converted by a leading desktop OCR program and by UnfoldPDF, side by side.

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How to convert a PDF to Word

  1. Upload a PDF or image

    A digital or scanned PDF, or a JPG or PNG, up to 50 MB.

  2. Choose pages

    Pick only the pages you need. Each page uses one credit.

  3. Convert and download

    Check the text on screen, then download the .docx.

Pricing

Start free: convert 1 page without an account, then get 5 free credits with a free account. No card required. Team plans from $9 a month for up to 3 people, or buy credit packs as you need them. More than 20 people? .

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Need it in another language?

Translate the Word file into any of 111 languages, up to 5 at once. Paragraphs and tables stay in place, and you see the price in credits before you start.

How translation works

PDF to Word questions

What kinds of files work?

Digital PDFs (made from Word, a browser or another program), scanned PDFs, and single images such as a phone photo or a scan saved as JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF or BMP. An image is converted as one page. Text, headings and tables are rebuilt as Word content. Extraction accuracy depends on document quality. Complex multi-column layouts, handwriting, or low-resolution scans may require manual review.

Will the Word file look exactly like my PDF?

Not exactly. You get a clean, editable document that flows like a normal Word file; fonts and spacing can change. To start each PDF page on a new Word page, turn on Keep page breaks in the conversion settings, or on the result screen before downloading.

What about recognition mistakes?

On digital PDFs, the text read from the page is checked against the PDF's own text where possible, and differences are corrected. On scans, Flag scanning errors (on by default) lists words that may be misread: words the recognition was unsure of, a number or code read differently elsewhere in the same document, a letter among digits, or a Japanese character in Chinese text. Each comes with a suggestion when there is one, and nothing is changed for you. Turn on Mark flagged words in the Word file to have them highlighted in Word.

Who reads my document?

Scanned pages and pages with tables, images or columns are sent to Microsoft, which reads the text and layout and returns them to us. Pages that contain only plain digital text are read on our own server instead. We don't use your documents for anything except converting them. See .

What happens to my files?

Files are stored privately and only you can download them. Files from a free page converted without an account are deleted 24 hours after you convert it; if you then sign in from the same browser, you can save it to one of your projects instead. Account conversions are kept 14 days on the free tier and with credit packs, and up to 180 days on monthly plans, then deleted. See the .

Can my team share credits?

Yes. A team workspace has one balance that every member converts from. The owner or an admin can set a monthly credit limit for each member, and only they can buy credits.

Can admins see our documents?

No. They see how many pages each person converted and when, not the files or their names. Each person’s documents are visible only to them.

What happens when someone leaves the team?

They lose access to the team workspace straight away. Their files don’t move to their personal account: they stay in the team’s storage until their normal deletion date, then are deleted.

Good to know before you convert
  • Digital and scanned PDFs, and single images (JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF or BMP), up to 50 MB. An image becomes one page and must be between 50 and 10,000 pixels on each side. TIFF and HEIC aren't supported yet, and password-protected or encrypted PDFs (including ones only restricted from editing) need to be unlocked first.
  • The result is ordinary Word paragraphs, headings and tables, never floating text boxes. Fonts, spacing and alignment can change, as in the example above.
  • Pictures are kept: images placed in a digital PDF, and picture areas cut from a scan. A drawing made of lines and shapes rather than an image can be left out, so check illustrations.
  • Lists keep one level: nested lists are flattened, and some bullets come through as plain text.
  • Printed text in many languages; Chinese, Japanese and Korean get suitable Word fonts. Right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew aren't laid out right to left yet. Handwriting and low-resolution scans may need manual review.
  • Recognition can misread similar characters in a scan. Words that may be misread are listed for you to check, with a suggestion when there is one; your text is never changed for you.

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