Drop a PDF and it is rebuilt as an editable .docx on your device — nothing is sent anywhere, no signup, no watermark.
Drop a PDF and it is rebuilt as an editable .docx on your device — nothing is sent anywhere, no signup, no watermark.
Convert a PDF into an editable Word .docx document in your browser. GhostPDF reads the PDF's text and structure and rebuilds it as paragraphs you can edit — no upload, no email-me-the-result, no signup. It works best on text-based PDFs (reports, letters, contracts); scanned PDFs are photographs of text, so run them through OCR first. Because the conversion happens on your device, a confidential contract never touches a server — there is nothing to delete afterwards because nothing was sent.
Drop your PDF
Drag a PDF onto the page. It opens in the GhostPDF studio with Convert → Word pre-selected — nothing is uploaded.
We rebuild it as .docx locally
The text, headings, and paragraph flow are extracted and written into a Word document, entirely in your browser.
Download and edit
Save the .docx and open it in Word, Google Docs, or LibreOffice. Every word is editable text, not a picture of text.
Is my PDF uploaded to convert it?
No. The conversion runs in your browser with a JavaScript PDF parser — there's no upload endpoint, no queue, and no server-side copy to worry about.
Will the layout match the PDF exactly?
Text, headings, and paragraph order transfer well. Complex layouts — multi-column pages, floating images, forms — are simplified. If you need a pixel-perfect replica, keep the PDF; if you need to edit the words, this is the right tool.
Can it convert a scanned PDF?
Not directly — a scan is an image of text, so there's nothing to extract. Run the scan through an OCR tool first (GhostImage's Image to Text works on screenshots and photos), then convert.
Is there a page or file limit?
No fixed cap. The conversion runs in your browser's memory, so limits depend on your device — hundred-page text PDFs are fine.
Can I convert to something other than Word?
Yes. The same Convert step can produce JPG or PNG images of each page, or extract the plain text as a .txt file.
Every GhostPDF tool runs entirely in your browser. Your file is never uploaded — there's no upload endpoint to send it to.