Will the formatting be preserved?

Only basic structure. The output contains paragraphs of plain text in Word's default styling, with page headings for multi-page sources. Original fonts, sizes, columns, text boxes, and page layout are not reconstructed — OCR sees pixels, not the document's design.

Are images and logos carried into the Word file?

No, the output is text only. If you need a figure from the original, grab it separately — the Extract Images tool pulls embedded images out of PDFs.

Tables come out as lines of text with cell contents run together. If the table is what you need, use the Table OCR tool instead — it clusters words into rows and columns and exports CSV that pastes cleanly into Excel or a Word table.

How is this different from PDF to Word?

PDF to Word reads the real text already embedded in a digitally created PDF — fast and exact. OCR to Word is for scans and photos, where the words must be recognized from the image. If Ctrl+F finds text in your PDF, use PDF to Word.

Can it convert handwriting?

Not usefully. Tesseract is designed for printed text; cursive and everyday handwriting produce mostly errors. Neat block capitals occasionally work in part, but proofread everything.

How much cleanup should I expect?

On a sharp, straight scan of printed text, most pages need only light fixes. Expect more errors with blur, skew, small print, or low contrast — and always verify numbers, names, dates, and amounts, where one wrong character changes the meaning.

OCR to Word

Extract text from images or scanned PDFs and create an editable Word document.

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Max 50MB per file

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About OCR to Word

Sometimes a searchable PDF isn't the goal — you want to edit the document. OCR to Word runs optical character recognition on an image or scanned PDF and assembles the recognized text into a .docx file you can open in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or LibreOffice and immediately start rewriting.

Recognition runs on Tesseract.js entirely inside your browser: the language model downloads once, and after that everything — rendering, OCR, and DOCX assembly — happens locally. Nothing is uploaded, so it's safe to use on agreements, personnel letters, and other documents that shouldn't touch a third-party server.

Be clear about what you'll get: editable paragraphs of plain text, with a 'Page 1', 'Page 2' heading separating each page of a multi-page PDF. OCR alone can't reconstruct fonts, columns, images, or tables — the output is a fresh document containing the words, not a visual clone of the page.

How to use it

1Upload a JPG, PNG, or WebP image, or a scanned PDF, up to 50 MB.
2Choose the document's language — English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese Simplified, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, or Dutch.
3Click Convert to Word. PDFs are rendered and recognized one page at a time; images are recognized directly.
4The text is assembled into a .docx: each line becomes a paragraph, blank lines are kept as spacing, and multi-page PDFs get a bold heading before each page's text.
5The Word file downloads automatically with the same base name as your upload — open it and edit like any normal document.

Common use cases

Reviving a document where only a printout survives — recognize it, then fix up the text instead of retyping every word.
Turning a scanned letter or memo into a template you can adapt and send again.
Making a typed transcript of a book passage or journal excerpt for quoting and annotation.
Getting a scanned agreement into editable form so changes can be tracked in Word during renegotiation.

Frequently asked questions

Tips

Run Word's spell checker in the document's language as a first cleanup pass — it catches most one-character OCR slips quickly.
Scan at 300 DPI or photograph the page straight-on in even light; recognition quality is decided before the tool runs.
Multi-column sources (newspapers, academic papers) get merged into one text flow — crop and recognize one column at a time if order matters.
Keep the original scan until you've proofread the Word file end to end.

100% private — runs in your browser

Convertora processes everything on your device using JavaScript and WebAssembly. Files never leave your browser, are never uploaded to a server, and are never seen by us or anyone else. The moment you close the tab, the data is gone — there is no temporary cloud copy, no log entry, no retained backup.

Because the work happens locally, processing speed depends on your device — but there are no rate limits, no daily caps, and no file size restrictions beyond what your browser can handle in memory. No signup, no account, no payment. The tool works the same in incognito mode, on a corporate network, or after the page has loaded once, even with the network disconnected.