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Turn a PDF into Word, or Word into PDF

The form wants a Word file and you only have the PDF. Or the other way round.

This tool runs on your phone. Your file never leaves it and nothing is uploaded to us.

Choose which way round you need it. The words come across as words you can edit, not a picture of a page.

Getting the tool ready.

When you need this

A scholarship form wants your CV as a Word document and all you have is the PDF. A colleague sends a report as a PDF and asks you to change two paragraphs. Or the opposite: you have typed something in Word on a borrowed laptop and the portal only takes PDF. Retyping a document because of its file format is a waste of an evening.

How to use it

  1. Choose the file. Whether you picked a PDF or a .docx, the tool works out which direction you need.
  2. Wait a few seconds. Long documents take longer, and everything happens on your phone rather than on a server.
  3. Save the result, then open it and read it before you send it anywhere.

What comes across, and what does not

  • The words, and their formatting. Headings, bold and italic, bullet and numbered lists, and tables all survive in both directions. The text in a converted PDF is real text, so it can still be searched and copied.
  • The page design does not. Columns, headers and footers, page numbers, text boxes and precise spacing are not carried over. A plain CV or letter comes through very well. A designed brochure does not.
  • Twi, Ewe, Ga and Dagbani are handled. The typefaces built into PDF readers have no ɛ or ɔ, so when your document needs them the tool builds a typeface that does into the file. That makes the PDF noticeably larger, and it says so rather than letting it look like a fault.
  • A scanned PDF cannot be converted. If the PDF is a photograph of a page, there is no text in it to move. Turning a picture of words into words needs text recognition, which this tool does not do and will not pretend to.

If something goes wrong

  • "There is no text in that PDF." It is a scan. Ask the sender for the original document instead.
  • It is an old .doc file. Open it in Word, Google Docs or WPS and save it again as .docx, which is the modern format, then come back.
  • The PDF is locked. Open it first with take the password off my PDF.
  • The layout came out plain. That is expected, not a fault. Fix the spacing in Word afterwards, where it takes a minute.