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artifexsoftware/pdf2docx A tool that works on your files

Turn a PDF with selectable text into an editable Word document

  • Open source
  • Runs on your own computer
  • Windows, Mac or Linux
  • Tested 4 Nov 2026

You bring

  • a PDF with selectable text, including text in tables

You get

  • an editable Word document
What can it reach?

Only the files you give it, with no network.

How was it tested?

Run on clean Intel and AMD and Apple silicon and ARM machines on 4 Nov 2026. Its check passed on a known sample and rejected deliberately broken results.

This checks the job this page describes, not every feature of the original project.

Project, licence and recipe files

artifexsoftware/pdf2docx on GitHub

Licence. pdf2docx MIT. PyMuPDF and MuPDF AGPL-3.0, with matching source archives in /usr/share/doc/pymupdf.

The 6 recipe files

Recipe revision 80f5d57cbb7f, from 3e1c2319d6a3.

Documents and text

Convert, read and proofread PDFs, Office files and text.

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