Turn any PDF into a fully editable Word (.docx) document in seconds — free, no Adobe Acrobat, and no signup required.
PDFs are perfect for sharing and printing but painful to change. Converting a PDF to Word lets you edit text directly in Microsoft Word or Google Docs, reformat headings and tables, reuse content in a new template, translate a document, or extract paragraphs and tables into a report. It is the fastest way to recover an editable source when the original .docx has been lost.
Use PDFWix's free PDF to Word converter — open it in any browser, no signup and no Microsoft Word installation required. The converter outputs a .docx file that opens cleanly in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice Writer and Apple Pages, so anyone can edit the result regardless of which word processor they use.
Step 1: upload your PDF by dragging it into the dropzone or selecting it from your device. Step 2: PDFWix converts the PDF to an editable Word document — paragraphs, headings, lists, tables and images are mapped to their Word equivalents. Step 3: download the resulting .docx file and open it in Word, Google Docs or any compatible editor to start editing.
Conversion accuracy depends on how the original PDF was created. PDFs exported directly from Word, Google Docs or LaTeX convert near-perfectly — paragraphs, headings, lists and tables all survive. Scanned PDFs (where each page is really an image) need OCR first; run them through PDFWix PDF OCR to make the text selectable, then convert. Complex multi-column layouts and tightly designed reports (invoices, magazines) may need light cleanup in Word after conversion — fonts and images are preserved, but reflow can shift line breaks.
PDFWix outputs modern .docx, the open-standard format used by every Word release since 2007 and by Google Docs, Pages and LibreOffice. The older binary .doc format from Word 97-2003 is no longer recommended — it has worse compatibility, larger file sizes and weaker formatting fidelity. If a recipient genuinely needs .doc, open the converted .docx in Word and use Save As → Word 97-2003 Document.
For PDFs originally created from Word or Google Docs, yes — paragraphs, headings, tables and images convert with high fidelity. For complex multi-column layouts or scanned PDFs, expect minor reflow that takes 1-2 minutes to clean up in Word.
Yes, but run the PDF through OCR first (PDFWix PDF OCR is free) so the page images become selectable text. Without OCR, the Word output will just contain the page images, not editable text.
Free conversions support PDFs up to 100MB. For larger files, compress the PDF first with PDFWix Compress PDF to bring it under the limit without losing readability.