PDF to Word

How to turn a PDF into a Word file

1. Choose the PDF (or drop it on the box). It is read at once, and the start of the Word file is shown.
2. Choose whether each PDF page starts a new page in Word, and whether to keep the pictures. To take only some pages, choose Some pages and type them, such as 1-3.
3. Download the Word file (.docx) or share it, then open it in Word, Google Docs or WPS Office.

Everything happens in your browser: the PDF is never uploaded to ap7am or anywhere else. A statement and its password stay in your browser, and neither is saved. The file keeps your PDF's name, such as letter.docx.

Only the parts you need

Under What to convert, choose Only the parts I select. Tick a table under Tables found (a table that goes on over several pages is listed once), or draw a box over each part you want, on any page (on a phone, tap ✏︎ Draw a box first). Only what is inside the boxes goes into the Word file, in the order of their numbers. A box drawn mostly over a table fits itself to the table, and Same place on next pages copies a box to the pages where its table goes on: the parts of one table become one Word table, its header row once.

A box moves and resizes with the mouse or a finger, or from the keyboard: the arrow keys move it, Alt and the arrow keys resize it, Delete removes it, and Ctrl+Z undoes. × removes a box, and the list under the page jumps to each part. A word only partly inside a box is taken when most of it is inside; a word is never cut in half.

What the Word file keeps

• Paragraphs, joined across the PDF's lines so the text flows and wraps as you edit it; a word broken with a hyphen at a line's end is joined again. A page in columns is read column by column.
• Headings in Word's Heading 1, 2 and 3 styles, from their size, so they show in Word's navigation pane and a table of contents.
• Bold, italic and sizes of the text, and its font where the PDF names a common one (Arial, Times New Roman, Calibri and the like).
• Lists: bullets and numbered items as Word lists; lettered items, such as (a) and (b), with their letters.
• Tables whose columns line up, as Word tables, with the header row bold.
• Pictures in their places, at their size on the page, cut out as they look in the PDF (never made larger than they are).
• Page breaks where the PDF's pages end, if you want them; headers, footers and page numbers repeated on every page are left out unless you keep them.

Telugu and fonts

Telugu text is set in Nirmala UI, the Telugu font Windows 8 and later have, so Word shows and prints it correctly. Where a computer or phone does not have that font, Word and Google Docs show the Telugu in a Telugu font they have. Telugu typed in an old font such as Anu comes out as Latin letters: the tool says so, and Anu to Unicode turns that text into Telugu.

What it cannot do

• Scanned PDFs: a scanned page has no text in it, so it goes into the Word file as a picture of the page. Run it through OCR PDF first: it reads the Telugu and English in pictures.
• The exact layout: Word lays the text out again, so lines and pages may break in other places, and columns, text boxes and text over pictures become ordinary paragraphs. Check the file against the PDF.
• Charts and drawings made of lines rather than pictures are not carried over.
• Form fields and comments in the PDF are not carried over.

Questions

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