OfficeBoy by PaperBoy

Turn a PDF into an editable Word document

Open a PDF and OfficeBoy rebuilds it as a Word (.docx) file: paragraphs with their fonts, sizes, bold, colours and alignment, real tables with their shading, and pictures, logos and lines kept where they were. Each PDF page is one Word page. A scanned PDF is read with OCR first.

It is rebuilt, not copied, so some things can differ: pages laid out in two or more columns keep their look but are harder to retype, a font your computer does not have is swapped for a similar one, and a line may then break at a different word. Charts and drawings stay as pictures.

Questions people ask

Will the formatting stay the same?

In most everyday documents, yes. In our checks with Microsoft Word, an offer, a contract and a form came back with every line within two points of where the PDF had it, with the same fonts, tables and page breaks.

Can I really edit the result?

Yes. Text is real text in flowing paragraphs, tables are real Word tables, and pictures can be moved or replaced.

Does it work with scanned PDFs?

Yes. The pages are read with OCR first, then the recognised words are placed where they stand on the scan.

Are my files uploaded?

No. The conversion happens inside your browser, on your own device.

Can I go the other way, from Word to PDF?

Yes. Open the .docx file in OfficeBoy and print it to PDF from the document editor.