A product catalogue PDF with photos on every page. You need to edit the copy in Word, but you'd quite like to keep the pictures attached to the right products.
Most converters handle images fine — it's where they land in the layout that gets interesting.
Images carry over as embedded objects
When you run a PDF through Flint's PDF to Word converter, every embedded image becomes an inline picture in Word — same resolution as the original PDF stored. You can right-click, save, replace, or just leave them where they are.
Vector graphics (charts, line art) sometimes come across as rasterised images. That's fine for viewing but you can't edit the underlying shapes. If editability matters, request the source file.
Where images land
Converters try to place images in roughly the same spot as the PDF. With clean text-flow documents this works well. With magazine-style layouts — overlapping captions, text wrapping around photos — things get loose. Images may sit above or below the paragraph they were nestled into.
For anything heavily designed, expect to nudge a few pictures. It's faster than rebuilding from scratch.
Resolution and file size
Images come across at the resolution they were stored at in the PDF. A 300dpi print PDF stays crisp; a 72dpi web PDF stays modest. The converter doesn't downsample. If your converted docx is enormous, compress the source PDF first — image-heavy PDFs are usually where the bulk lives.
When you only want the images
If editing text isn't actually the goal — you just want to extract every picture — convert to images directly instead. PDF to JPG or PDF to PNG renders each page as an image. Faster than fishing pictures out of a Word file.
FAQ
Will image quality drop?
No — converters embed images at their original resolution. If the PDF stored them at 72dpi, that's what you get. Quality loss is a PDF-creation problem, not a conversion one.
Can I edit text inside images?
Only if you OCR them first — most converters won't touch baked-in image text. Run the PDF through OCR if you need the text inside diagrams to be editable.
Why are some images cut off?
Usually because they extended past the page margin in the original layout. Word respects margins more strictly than PDFs do. Resize the image or widen the margin in Word.
Will logos and signatures come across?
Yes — they're treated as regular images. Logos in headers and footers carry into the corresponding Word section.
Pictures, diagrams, the lot — they all come along. Convert your PDF to Word without losing the visuals.