Convert a PDF to Word (DOCX), without uploading it

What this tool does

• The structure is recovered from the layout: text larger than the body becomes a heading, a gap wider than a line opens a paragraph, a bullet opens a list.
• Headings come out as Heading 1 to 3 styles, with their outline level: they show up in the navigation pane and in a generated table of contents.
• Lists are real lists, bulleted or numbered: pressing Enter continues the list instead of writing an ordinary line.
• Bold, italics, tables and clickable links are carried over. Repeated headers and footers are removed, and the screen says how many lines went.
• The result is shown before you save, and the screen flags pages that look like columns, where the reading order is probably wrong.

What it does not do: What comes out is the CONTENT of the PDF, not its layout: margins, columns, fonts, sizes, colours and page breaks are not carried over, and your word processor will lay the text out its own way. Images, formulas and footnotes are not carried over either. The structure is guessed from the layout, which is why it is shown to you: it works well on a report, a contract, a manual, and badly on a free-form layout. A page in several columns is read edge to edge, so out of order, and the screen says so. A scanned document has no text to read: run it through text recognition first.

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The other tools

• Merge PDFs: Several files, one document, in the order you decide.
• Organize pages: Reorder, rotate, delete, duplicate: the whole plan.
• Extract pages: Pick pages, take them out into a document of their own.
• Delete pages: Remove pages while looking at them; they are not left under the file you get.