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Convert PDF to Word — online

Upload a scan, a photo or a PDF and turn it into Word, Excel, TXT or searchable PDF — tables and layout included. Online OCR right in your browser, nothing to install.

Need to change a PDF, not just read it? Once recognition is done, open the PDF editor — edit the text right on the scan and download the finished PDF.

No installation Word · Excel · TXT · PDF PDF editor Ready in a minute
Free: a file up to 30 pages in full; beyond that, the first 15 pages · get access up to 3 files per hour · buying any plan removes this limit Sign in →
Drop a document here, or click to choose one
PDF, PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, WEBP · up to 80 MB
The editor will open: click any line right on your own document, correct it and save as PDF. Stamps, signatures and paper stay exactly the same.
Drop files here, or click to choose them
PDF, PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, WEBP · up to 80 MB
You can upload several files at once — they are merged into ONE document. Photographing pages one by one? Add them in turn and get a single Word file.

Output formats

🔒 Online recognition currently requires an active plan — new plans are temporarily unavailable. Windows app — offline, free for 14 days

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Online OCR, PDF to Word conversion and a PDF editor

ScanLex converts PDF to Word, scans to Word and photos to text right in your browser — free and with nothing to install. Text, tables and layout are all recognized, and the PDF editor lets you change the text right on the scan.

How do I convert a PDF to Word online for free?

Drag a PDF into the upload area, pick the Word (DOCX) format and click “Recognize”. About a minute later you download an editable document with tables and layout intact.

Can I extract plain text from a PDF or a scan?

Yes. Choose “Plain text (TXT)” or “Searchable PDF” and you get text you can search and copy. Scans and photographs are supported.

How do I edit a PDF online?

Upload the file, wait for recognition to finish and click “Fix on the scan” — the PDF editor opens. Click any line, type the new text and save the result as PDF. You can edit a PDF right in the browser, with nothing to install.

How do I change a PDF and keep its original look?

The editor works on the page image itself: only the corrected fragment is replaced, and the typeface, size and ink colour are matched to the document. Stamps, signatures, rules and the paper background stay as they were, so you can change a PDF invisibly — the output is an ordinary PDF. If you would rather rewrite the whole text, recognize the document into Word.

Can I upload several files at once?

Yes. Pick several files at once or add them one by one — they pile up in the list and are merged into ONE document: the pages follow the order of the files (use the arrows to reorder). Handy for assembling a document from separate photos of its pages: the output is a single Word file, not a pile of them.

Which formats are supported?

Upload: PDF, PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, WEBP up to 80 MB. Output: Word (DOCX), Excel (XLSX), TXT and searchable PDF.

Do I need to install anything?

No. Online recognition works in the browser on a computer, tablet or phone. For unlimited offline work there is the ScanLex app for Windows.

Uploaded files are stored temporarily and used only for recognition.

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