Convert a PDF to Word without uploading it

Open a PDF in Golem Docs, choose File ▸ Convert To ▸ Word, and you get an editable .docx made from it. The conversion runs in your browser, so the PDF is never uploaded to a server, and you don't need an account.

How to do it

1. Open the PDF. Drop it onto the Golem Docs window, or choose File ▸ Open.
2. Choose File ▸ Convert To ▸ Word. The PDF becomes a Word document you can edit like any other.
3. Download it. Choose File ▸ Download to get the .docx.

What comes across

• The text, kept where the PDF had it, with headings in bold and the text's color.
• Pictures, including ones that are turned or mirrored, and black-and-white fax scans.
• Vector drawings, such as logos, charts, line art, and QR codes, kept as sharp pictures that stay clear however far you zoom.
• Running headers and footers, such as dates, titles, and page numbers, which become the document's header and footer.

What to know

• It is a reflowed copy. The text is yours to edit, but the page layout won't match the original exactly. To change a PDF and keep it a PDF, use Edit PDF.
• Scanned pages are pictures. A PDF made by scanning paper has no text to convert, so its pages come across as pictures.

To go the other way, or to turn a PDF into Markdown, HTML, or another format, see converting documents.

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