What carries over from the PDF

  • Page size and margins
  • Text with its fonts, sizes and colours
  • Tables and images
  • Clickable links
  • Paragraphs worked out from the page layout — a PDF has no paragraphs of its own
The PDF to Word and Word to PDF conversion screen

Step by step

How to convert a PDF to Word

  1. Open Tools → PDF to Word, or tap a PDF and choose PDF to Word from its quick actions.
  2. Tap Choose a PDF file and select the document.
  3. Tap Convert to Word. The conversion runs on your device.
  4. Open or share the .docx from the result sheet. It is saved in the PDFReader folder.

Good to know

Before you start

Scanned PDFs

If the PDF is a scan, it holds pictures rather than text and the app will say so. Use PDF to text (OCR) to get the words.

Locked PDFs

Remove the password first with Unlock PDF — you need to know it — then convert.

About saving results

When a tool finishes, the app may ask you to watch a short video before the new file is saved. If no video is available, the file is saved anyway, and your original is never changed.

Questions

PDF to Word FAQ

Is PDF to Word conversion free?

Yes. The app is free and ad-supported; saving a converted file may ask you to watch a short video first.

Will the Word file look exactly like the PDF?

Page size, margins, text styling, tables, images and links are rebuilt. Because a PDF stores positioned text rather than paragraphs, complex layouts may need small touch-ups in Word.

Does my PDF get uploaded?

No. The conversion runs entirely on your Android device.

Also in the app

Word to PDF

Convert Word .docx files to PDF on your Android phone, offline. Headings, fonts, lists, tables, images, headers, footers and links carry over.

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PDF Converter

Convert PDF to Word, Word to PDF, images to PDF, PDF to images and PDF to text with OCR — offline on your Android phone, with no upload and no account.

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PDF Editor

Edit PDFs on Android: add text, highlight, draw, add shapes, notes, stamps and images, and sign with a saved signature. Saved as a new PDF on your device.

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