Document Tools
Document tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, and text
Convert Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to and from PDF, compress Office files, extract text from scans, and strip hidden metadata. Free document tools, no sign-up.
Documents move between people who use different software. These tools translate between Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF, shrink Office files that are too big to email, pull text out of scans, and remove the author details that files carry without you noticing.
Each tool states what it keeps and what it can't, for example that converting a PDF back to Word can't perfectly rebuild complex layouts. Uploads are encrypted and deleted within about 24 hours.
All document tools
- Word to PDFConvert Word (.docx) documents to PDF.
- PDF to WordConvert a PDF into an editable Word document, preserving paragraphs, bold/italic, headings, simple tables, and images (complex multi-column layouts may not match exactly).
- Word to JPGExport a Word (.docx) document's pages as JPG images.
- Word to PNGExport a Word (.docx) document's pages as PNG images.
- Excel to PDFConvert Excel spreadsheets to PDF.
- PowerPoint to PDFConvert PowerPoint presentations to PDF.
- Merge DocumentsCombine Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files into one PDF.
- Image to TextExtract selectable text from a photo or screenshot with OCR.
- Scan to WordTurn a scanned page or PDF into an editable Word (DOCX) document with OCR.
- Metadata RemoverStrip hidden metadata such as GPS location, camera details, and author names from images, PDFs, and Office files.
PDF to Word or Scan to Word?
If you can select the words in your PDF, use PDF to Word, which keeps the formatting as closely as possible. If the PDF is a picture of a page, there is no text to convert until it's recognized, so use Scan to Word.
Recommended workflows
Send a Word document that can't be edited
- Convert it to PDF so the layout stays fixed. Word to PDF
- Clear the author and company details first if needed. Metadata Remover
Edit a document you only have as a scan
- Convert the scan to an editable Word file. Scan to Word
- Save the corrected version as a PDF. Word to PDF
Email a heavy presentation
- Compress the PowerPoint to a size that fits in an email. Compress PowerPoint
Guides
- How to Compress a PowerPoint That's Too Big to Email
Why .pptx files balloon to 40 MB and four free ways to shrink one for email: a one-click compressor, PowerPoint's own settings, or routing it through PDF.
- How to Turn a Scanned Document Into an Editable Word File
Scanned PDFs and photos of pages are just images. Here's how to get a scanned document into Word from a scanner or a phone photo, using free OCR.
- Why Did My PDF to Word Conversion Lose Its Formatting?
PDF to Word conversion works differently than most people expect. Here's what actually happens during the conversion, and how to get a usable result.