About this tool

Scanned PDF to Editable Word is a free tool that turns a PDF — including a scanned PDF that is only pictures of pages — into a Word file you can edit.

It works in your browser. Pages that already contain real text are taken straight out, with their positions and font sizes, so headings, paragraphs, lists and tables are rebuilt. Pages that are only images are read with OCR (Tesseract.js), and the word positions are used to rebuild lines, paragraphs, headings and spacing. The recognised text appears in an editable box, so you can correct mistakes before you download the Word file. Each PDF page starts a new page in the Word file.

There is no sign-up and no fee. Clean printed English works best. It keeps the document's structure, but it is not a pixel-perfect copy — complex layouts, images and handwriting may still shift. The limit is 20 pages per file, and English only, in this version.