Turn a PDF back into a document you can edit
A PDF has no paragraphs in it, only glyphs at coordinates. This puts them back: headings by size, emphasis from the fonts, lists, tables and pictures where they sat.
1. The PDF
It is read in this tab. Nothing is uploaded, and once this page has loaded it works with the network off.
Choose a PDF to begin. It stays in this tab.
2. What came back
What was rebuilt, and what was left out. Read it before you trust the document.
Nothing read yet.
3. The document
This is what will be written. Scroll it, and if a heading or a list came out wrong, the Word file is where to fix it.
The fonts, the colours and the exact page layout are not carried across: what comes back is the document, not a picture of it. Tables are rebuilt where the columns line up; a table drawn with rules and merged cells will come back as text.
How it works
REFLOW rebuilds a real document from them: headings from font size, bold and italic from the fonts, lists, tables and pictures where they belong, and running headers and page numbers taken out. Save the result as a Word document or plain text you can edit. A scanned PDF needs its text read first with OPTIC. The PDF is converted in your browser, not uploaded.
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