Layout mode places every text block exactly where it sat on the original page, with the same fonts, sizes and weights. Flow mode gives you a normal editable document instead. Both run entirely in your browser.
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Every text block is written into a positioned frame at its original coordinates, so headers stay in the header, a signature block stays bottom-right, and columns stay side by side.
Font family, size and bold or italic weight are read from the PDF itself and applied to the Word output, rather than everything arriving as one flat style.
PDFs are usually contracts, invoices or statements. The file is parsed and the DOCX is assembled entirely on your own device.
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Layout mode reproduces the page as it looks. Flow mode produces a normal document that reflows when you edit it.
Switch between Result and Original to check the conversion page by page before downloading anything.
The file opens in Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice and Pages, with the text fully editable.
FAQ
Layout mode places each text block in a positioned frame at its original coordinates, so the page looks like the PDF. That is ideal for forms, invoices, certificates and anything where position carries meaning, but the frames make heavy rewriting awkward. Flow mode produces ordinary paragraphs that reflow naturally as you type, which suits reports and articles you intend to rewrite.
Very close in Layout mode, but not pixel-identical, and no converter can honestly promise otherwise. A PDF stores drawing instructions rather than document structure: it knows a glyph sits at a coordinate, not that a line is a heading. Positions, sizes and weights are reconstructed faithfully; exotic effects, vector graphics and complex table borders are simplified.
Font names, sizes and weights are read from the PDF and written into the DOCX. Whether they display identically depends on the fonts installed on the computer opening the file. If a font is missing, Word substitutes a similar one, which is standard behaviour for any document exchanged between machines.
No. A scan is a photograph of a page with no text layer, so there is nothing to extract. Use the OCR tool instead, which recognises characters from the image. If the preview comes back empty, your file is a scan.
Multi-column layouts are the hardest case, because reading order in a PDF is not always the visual order. Layout mode sidesteps this entirely by keeping blocks where they are. In Flow mode, blocks are sorted top to bottom then left to right, which is sometimes not what a two-column article intends.
Yes. The output is a genuine Office Open XML file. Note that Google Docs handles positioned text frames less faithfully than Microsoft Word does, so Layout mode looks most accurate in Word or LibreOffice.
No. The PDF is parsed and the DOCX is assembled entirely inside your browser. Neither the document nor any password you type is transmitted.
Layout mode reconstructs the page by writing each text block into a positioned frame at its original coordinates, keeping font, size and weight - the document opens looking like the PDF. Flow mode goes further and infers structure: it groups lines into paragraphs, promotes larger text to headings and rebuilds bullet lists, producing a document that reflows naturally when you edit it.
Invoices, forms, certificates, letterheads and anything where a signature block or a total sits in a specific place belong in Layout mode. Reports, articles and manuscripts you intend to rewrite belong in Flow mode, where positioned frames would only get in the way.
A scanned PDF contains images of pages with no text layer, so there is nothing to extract - a PDF stores instructions to draw glyphs at coordinates rather than a document structure. A scanned document needs optical character recognition first, which is what the image to text tool does.
No. PDFs are usually contracts, invoices, payslips or statements, which is exactly why everything runs locally in your browser rather than being sent to a server.
Use the Word to PDF converter to go from DOCX back to PDF. To change a document without converting it at all, use the PDF editor, and for a password-protected file, the PDF unlocker.