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PDF to Word

The words, headings and lists of a PDF, as a Word document you can edit.

More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.About the extension

How to convert PDF to Word

  1. Drop the PDF.
  2. Nothing to choose.
  3. Press Convert and download the DOCX.

What happens to your file

The PDF’s text layer is read into paragraphs, headings and lists — in reading order — and pandoc writes a DOCX from them that Word, Google Docs and LibreOffice open and edit. That is the words and the structure, not the page layout: columns become one column, fonts are Word’s own, images are not carried (Extract images from PDF has them), a form is its labels.

A scanned PDF has no text layer, so its pages are read by OCR first — the same reading Image to text does — and the report says so. Expect OCR’s mistakes on a poor scan; a PDF made from a Word file converts cleanly.

Questions

Will it look exactly like the PDF?

No, and no converter honestly can: a PDF is a picture of a page, a Word file is a flow of text. This keeps what you can edit — the words and their structure — and leaves the layout behind on purpose.

ODT or RTF instead?

The same conversion writes ODT and RTF through the API (convert with to: odt or rtf). Pages for them are coming.

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "convert",
    "options": {
      "to": "docx"
    }
  }'

The same operation, convert — Documents into another document format: Office, text and HTML to PDF by default, or by `to` into docx, odt, rtf, txt, html, xlsx, ods, csv, pptx, odp, md or epub (Markdown and EPUB through pandoc). Images to WebP. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.