A PDF is made to look the same everywhere, which also makes it hard to change. These eight tools get your content out in the format you need.
PDF to Word without formatting issues
PDF to Word creates an editable .docx. With the default layout, Same as PDF, every line of text keeps its font, position, size and colour, and logos, photos, lines, shading and table borders stay where they were.
- Standard or OCR? Use Standard for PDFs made on a computer. Use OCR for scanned paper and photos of documents (English, French and Hindi).
- Want text that reflows like a normal document instead? Choose Flowing text.
- Good to know: lines, shading and table borders are part of each page's background, so you edit the text, not the borders. Lines in scripts such as Hindi or Arabic are kept as part of the page picture: they look the same but can't be edited.
PDF to Excel
PDF to Excel finds the tables in statements, invoices and reports. Text on the same line becomes a row, text that lines up becomes a column, and values like 1,234.56, $45.00 and 12% become real numbers, ready for formulas. Very tight layouts can confuse column detection, so check the result. Scans have no text to read: run them through OCR PDF first.
PDF to PowerPoint
PDF to PowerPoint turns each page into a slide that looks like the original, with the text in editable text boxes. Slides take the size and shape of the PDF's first page.
PDF to JPG or PNG
- PDF to JPG: small files, good for photos and sharing. Normal (150 dpi) for screens, High (300 dpi) for printing. Pictures only saves the images inside instead of whole pages.
- PDF to PNG: perfectly sharp text, lines and diagrams, with an optional see-through background, handy for logos and signatures.
Several pages arrive together in one ZIP file.
Extract images at full quality
Extract images saves the photos and logos inside a PDF without compressing them again: JPEG photos come out byte for byte, other pictures as lossless PNG. Tiny images such as bullets and icons are skipped unless you untick Skip small images.
PDF to Markdown for notes and AI tools
PDF to Markdown keeps headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, links, bold and italic, and leaves out running headers, footers and page numbers. The clean text works well in note apps, documentation and AI assistants.
Just need the words? PDF to Text saves a plain .txt file, line by line and paragraph by paragraph, that opens anywhere.
PDF to PDF/A for archiving
PDF to PDF/A makes a PDF/A-2b copy, the archival format many courts, libraries and governments ask for. Each page is stored as a high-quality picture with invisible, searchable text, and links, forms and attachments are removed as the standard requires. If an organisation uses a strict validator such as veraPDF, check the file there before submitting.