Editable text, not a copy of the page
A PDF stores letters at exact positions on the page, without any notion of paragraphs. Many converters copy those positions into Word with a text box for every line, which looks right but is painful to edit. This tool reads the position, size and font of every piece of text and puts the document back together: lines are joined into paragraphs, words split by a hyphen at the end of a line are joined again, larger text becomes a heading, and bold and italic are taken from the font names.
Lines that start with a bullet become a Word bullet list. Rows of text aligned in columns become a table, and a line with text on the left and on the right, like a date next to a name, keeps its layout with tab stops. Links stay clickable and images are placed between the paragraphs where they appear.
What to expect
The result is a clean, simplified document. Fonts keep their names and sizes when Word has them installed, page size and margins follow the PDF and, if you like, every PDF page starts on a new Word page. Text colors, columns, text boxes, shapes, charts drawn as lines, and tables with merged cells are not rebuilt one to one, so complex brochures and forms need some touching up.
A scanned PDF has no text, only pictures of pages. Those pages arrive in Word as images. To get editable text from a scan, first run it through OCR PDF, which adds a text layer, and then convert it here.
Your file stays with you
The PDF is read and the Word file is written in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, so contracts, invoices and CVs stay private.