PDF to Word — free, no watermark, no sign-up
Drop a PDF in and the text and tables come out as an editable Word document you can keep working on right here. Text-based PDFs are extracted directly; for scans (pages that are just images) we ask first, then read the words off the page with text recognition — which also runs in your own browser, with nothing uploaded.
What comes across, and what does not
Comes across
- Body text and paragraphs
- Heading levels inferred from font size
- Tabular data laid out in columns
- The reading order of every page
- Text on scanned pages (after you agree to run recognition)
Does not come across
- Images and vector graphics
- Exact placement of multi-column layouts
- Original ownership of headers, footers and footnotes
- Handwriting, and scans that are badly skewed or blurred
How to use it
- 1
Drop a file in, or click “choose a file” to pick one
- 2
It starts automatically and names each step as it runs
- 3
Download the result, or keep editing it in TutuDocs
Common questions
- Do I need to sign up?
- No. Converting and downloading need no account. Signing in is only for saving the result to the cloud and continuing on another device.
- Is the result watermarked?
- No. Nothing is watermarked and there is no limit on how many times you convert.
- Is my file uploaded to your servers?
- No. The whole conversion happens in your browser. Open DevTools (F12) and watch the Network tab to check. The one thing that uses the network is the text-recognition engine for scans, downloaded once and only if you agree.
- How big a file can I convert?
- There is no limit. We no longer measure your file up front — that number was ours, not any device’s real ceiling. We just start; if this device genuinely cannot fit it, the browser says so and we pass on the reason, a way forward, and an event ID.
- Does it work on a phone?
- Yes, with the same features as on a computer. Very large files will simply take longer.
- Will you start charging later?
- It is free and unlimited today. We avoid absolute promises nobody can back, and there is no hidden sign-up wall or usage cap either.
- Will the layout survive?
- A PDF has no concept of a paragraph — only positioned glyphs. We rebuild reading order and heading levels, but multi-column layouts and floating text boxes will need a manual pass in the editor.
- How do I know whether my PDF is a scan?
- Open it in any reader and try to select a line of text with the mouse. If you can select it, it is text-based; if not, it is a scan. You do not have to work it out yourself either — we tell you how many pages are scans once we have read the file, and ask whether to recognise them.
- How are scans handled?
- With the WebAssembly build of Tesseract, running inside your browser. The first run downloads about 6 MB of recognition engine which the browser then remembers; recognition itself sends nothing over the network, and the file is still never uploaded. Expect a few seconds per page — noticeably slower on long documents, and cancellable at any point.
- How accurate is the recognition?
- Clean scans of printed text are usually good enough to edit straight away. Skewed, blurred, low-resolution or handwritten pages will contain mistakes, so check the result yourself — numbers especially.
- Can I edit the result straight away?
- Yes. “Open in TutuDocs” loads it into the online Word editor, and you can export DOCX or PDF from there.