PDF → Word

Scanned PDFs as Word docs that read right

Send the file other converters mangled, tell us what to keep, and we email back an editable .docx a person has checked.

Q1Q2Q3Q4
Company Name
Total Revenue
Revenue Chart
Net Income
Fiscal Quarter

Extracted Data

Company Name

Acme Corporation

Total Revenue

$394.3B

Revenue Chart

Quarterly Revenue Data:

Q1$88.2B
Q2$97.3B
Q3$89.5B
Q4$119.3B

Net Income

$96.99B

Fiscal Quarter

Q4 2023

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Turn a scanned PDF into an editable Word doc

Send the PDF, tell us what to keep, and we email the .docx.

Free

Have the file on your computer? Paste a shareable link above, or email it to hello@usesieve.com after you submit.

Next: create your free account so your Word doc only ever reaches you. 30 seconds, no card.

Our clients

Trusted by leading hedge funds

Powering data-driven decisions for the world's most sophisticated investment firms

$100B+

in Assets Under Management

100K+

Data Points Extracted & Validated

Clean PDFs are easy. Scanned ones aren't.

If your PDF has real, selectable text, free tools convert it fine, and you should use them. The trouble starts with scanned or image-only pages: free OCR scrambles the layout, splits tables, and flows multi-column text in the wrong order. Then nobody checks it. We do.

  • Digital PDFs are solved: if your file has real text, Adobe or Smallpdf convert it fast and free. Use them.
  • Scanned PDFs are where it breaks: free OCR reads an image-only page and scrambles the layout, tables, and characters.
  • Multi-column docs jumble: text flows in the wrong order and you retype half of it.
  • Nobody checks the result: the file looks converted until you read it and find the errors.

How it works

1

Send the PDF

Scanned, image-only, or a messy multi-column file, whatever the free tools choked on.

Digital PDFs are welcome too.

2

Say what to keep

Body text only? Keep the tables and headings? Drop the page numbers? Tell us.

Plain English works.

3

We email the Word file

We OCR the page, a person checks the headings, tables, and reading order came through, and you get an editable .docx.

Reads right, not just converted.

Scanned pages read right

We OCR image-only PDFs and a person checks the words, order, and tables before the file reaches you.

Reading order preserved

Multi-column pages stay in the order a person reads them, not jumbled straight down the page.

Headings and tables survive

Structure comes through as real Word headings and tables, checked by hand.

You say what to drop

Keep the body and lose the headers, footers, and page numbers, whatever you want gone.

What people send us

  • A paralegal turning a scanned signed contract into an editable doc for redlining
  • An admin reviving an old image-only report as editable text
  • A job seeker editing a resume that only exists as a PDF
  • An HR team converting scanned policies into editable templates
  • A messy two-column article pulled into clean, ordered Word text

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Questions people ask

Probably not. If your PDF has real text, free tools like Adobe or Smallpdf convert it well and instantly. We're for scanned, image-only, or messy multi-column files those tools mangle.

Yes. We OCR the image and a person checks the words, tables, and reading order are right. Faint, skewed, or handwritten pages get flagged rather than guessed at.

We keep headings and tables as real Word elements and verify them by hand. Tell us what to drop, like headers or page numbers, and we'll leave them out.

Yes. Multi-column pages are exactly where free OCR jumbles the text. We check the reading order so the doc flows the way a person reads it.

Scanned PDFs as Word docs that read right

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