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PDF → Office

PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint or ODT — editable text and tables.

Output: 📝 Word · text & tables · 📊 Slides · page images · 📈 Excel · row per line · 📄 ODT · text & tables

Free · No sign-up · Files deleted in 1 hour

Single file · .pdf · up to 50 MB
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How to PDF → Office

  1. Upload your PDFDrag in the PDF you want to convert back to an editable format.
  2. Choose the output formatPick Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx), PowerPoint (.pptx) or OpenDocument (.odt).
  3. DownloadYou get the text and any tables as editable content. Page layout, fonts and images are not reproduced — scanned pages are read with OCR.
About this tool

PDF to Word Converter — Also Excel, PowerPoint & ODT, Free

Turn a PDF back into an editable file — DOCX for Word, XLSX for Excel, PPTX for PowerPoint, or ODT for OpenDocument — so you can edit, repurpose, or pull data out of a document that started life as a fixed PDF.

Every page is read with OCR before it's rebuilt in your chosen format, which means it works on scanned or image-only PDFs, not just ones with a text layer already in place. DOCX and XLSX come back as clean, searchable text — one paragraph or row per line rather than a byte-for-byte layout clone — while PPTX keeps each page as a slide image with the recognised text placed in the speaker notes, so the visual layout stays intact and the text stays searchable.

That trade-off is deliberate: the result is genuinely editable, not pixel-identical to the source — expect plain paragraphs rather than a preserved multi-column layout in Word, and one line per row rather than true spreadsheet columns in Excel. Select a page range if you only need part of the document; files are processed securely and deleted automatically after an hour. Conversion is free, needs no sign-up, runs in the browser and takes PDFs up to 50 MB.

  • DOCX, XLSX, PPTX or ODT output
  • OCR-based — works on scanned and image-only PDFs too
  • Select a page range instead of converting the whole file
  • PPTX keeps each page as a slide image with searchable notes
  • No Acrobat and no Word licence required
  • The PDF and the converted file both clear after an hour
Questions

Frequently asked questions

How do I convert PDF to Word?

Upload your PDF, choose DOCX as the output format, optionally set a page range, and Dudle converts it to an editable Word document — free, no sign-up.

Does converting PDF to Word keep the original formatting?

Not exactly — conversion runs through OCR, so text comes back as clean, editable paragraphs rather than a pixel-identical clone of the original layout. Complex multi-column pages or precise fonts won't carry over; simple, mostly-text pages come through cleanest.

How do I convert a scanned PDF to an editable Word doc?

The same way as any other PDF — upload it and choose DOCX. Conversion always runs through OCR, so scanned and image-only pages convert just like ones with a native text layer.

Can I convert PDF tables into an editable Excel spreadsheet?

You can get the text into XLSX — each page becomes a sheet with one line of recognised text per row — but it's not automatic cell-by-cell table detection, so multi-column tables will need some manual re-splitting into columns once they're in Excel.

What's the best free PDF to Word converter?

That depends on what you need — if you want a real editable document without installing software or signing up, Dudle's PDF to Word tool converts free, works on scanned PDFs too, and deletes your files automatically after an hour.