Questions about converting PDF to Word

Yes. It is open source, there is no paid tier, and nothing is added to the file you get back.

Up to 100 MB per file, and as many files as you like, one after another.

A PDF with selectable text takes seconds. A scanned page takes a second or two to read, and several pages are read at once, so a long scan takes a few minutes.

Yes. Open this page in your phone’s browser, choose the PDF from your files, and the Word document is saved to your downloads.

No, it only goes from PDF to Word. Word, Google Docs and LibreOffice can all save a document as a PDF themselves.

A .docx file, the format Word has used since 2007. Google Docs, LibreOffice Writer and Apple Pages open it too.

Close to it. Lines break in the same places and the page count matches. A typeface your computer does not have is swapped for Times New Roman, Arial or Courier New, and the spacing is adjusted so the lines still fit.

Tables drawn with lines become real Word tables you can type in, with the text in the right cells. Tables with no lines come across as plain text.

Usually a scanned page was read in the wrong language, or the dotted leaders of a table of contents were read as letters. Pick the language the page is written in and convert it again, and delete any leftover dots in Word. If the PDF was not a scan and its text already copies out as strange letters (older Hindi and Odia fonts such as Kruti Dev and Akruti do this), turn on Read every page as a scan.

Yes. Pages without selectable text are recognised automatically, including files where a print driver turned the text into outlines.

English, Odia and Hindi. English + Odia and English + Hindi handle pages that mix two of them.

Not yet. Open it in a PDF reader that knows the password, save a copy without it, and convert that copy.

They are uploaded to this server, kept only while the conversion runs, and deleted an hour after it finishes, on a timer that does not wait for another visitor. A file is uploaded as soon as you choose it, so its first page can be shown; if you close the window instead of converting it, it is deleted there and then, and otherwise an hour later. Only the browser that uploaded a file can see it or download the result, and nothing is passed to anyone else.