A PDF records where each letter sits on the page. A Word document records paragraphs, headings and lists and lets Word decide where they land. Converting between them means guessing the structure back from the positions, which is why no PDF-to-Word converter is perfect — including this one.

What comes across well

Running text, paragraph breaks, and page breaks. Convert Files reads the text layer of each page, groups lines into paragraphs by spacing and punctuation, and writes a clean Word file you can edit immediately.

What does not

Images, columns, tables and exact fonts. A PDF made from a scan has no text layer at all, so nothing can be extracted; you would need OCR first. Two-column layouts may come out interleaved.

The other direction is much better

Word to PDF keeps everything — headings, bold and italic, lists, quotes, tables and pictures — because it goes from structure to layout, which is the easy way round. If you have the original Word file, always convert from that.

Tip: if you only need the words, choose .txt or .md as the target. It is faster and there is no layout to get wrong.