How to convert a PDF to Word
- Drop the PDF above.
- Press Convert to Word.
- Open the .docx in Word, Google Docs or LibreOffice.
What comes across
The converter reads the PDF the way the CadreScripts editor does: each line's font, size, bold and italic, then the paragraphs (from the line spacing, indents and where lines end), their alignment and the space between them. Repeated page headers, footers and page numbers are recognised and become a real Word footer with a page number; line numbers down the margin of court transcripts and pleadings are left out of the text. Pictures and logos are copied at their place on the page. The Word file has the PDF's page size and margins, so its pages break where the PDF's did.
Scanned PDFs
A scanned PDF holds pictures of pages, not text. The converter keeps each page as a picture in the Word file, so nothing is lost; to get editable text, open it in the editor (signed in), which reads scanned pages with text recognition.
Need the text checked, translated or turned into captions? Open the document in the CadreScripts editor: it keeps the layout and fonts too.
Questions
Is my PDF uploaded?
No. The conversion runs in your browser, on your computer.
Will it look exactly like the PDF?
Very close for documents made from text: the fonts, sizes, paragraphs, spacing and pictures. Text in several columns and text boxes floating over pictures come out as ordinary paragraphs.
Does it work with scanned PDFs?
Yes: each page comes in as a picture. For editable text, use the editor's text recognition.
Is it free?
Yes: no sign-up, no watermark, no limit.