A teacher sent you a PDF worksheet your kid needs to fill in on the iPad. You'd rather edit it as a Word doc on your iPhone first, then send it back. iOS will read the PDF but won't convert it.
Safari will.
PDF to Word
Flint's PDF to Word converter reads the PDF's text layer, recreates the layout in DOCX, and hands you back a Word file that opens cleanly in Pages, Word for iOS, or Google Docs. Tables and lists come through. Pixel-perfect layout matching depends on the source — born-digital PDFs convert beautifully; heavily designed PDFs need light touch-up.
PDF to images
Sometimes you need each page as a JPG to drop into Instagram, a chat, or a slide deck. Flint's PDF-to-image converter exports each page as a high-quality image you can save straight to Photos via Safari's download menu.
Useful when someone insists on a 'picture of the document' rather than a PDF — happens more than it should.
Word or image back to PDF
Going the other way — DOCX, JPG, or PNG into a single PDF — also works in Flint. If you're collecting receipts as photos on your iPhone for an expense report, drop them into the image-to-PDF converter and you'll get a tidy multi-page PDF ready to upload. You can then merge it with the expense form.
FAQ
Does PDF-to-Word preserve formatting?
For text, tables, and most layouts: yes. Complex multi-column designs, embedded fonts, and graphics may shift slightly. The result is usually 95% there and easier to clean up than retyping from scratch.
Can I convert a scanned PDF on iPhone?
Scanned PDFs are images. Converting them to Word requires OCR — text recognition — which Flint can do but may not extract perfectly on poor scans. Better scans (clean, high contrast, straight) give cleaner OCR results.
Is there a file size limit?
Flint handles typical iPhone PDFs without trouble. Very large files (hundreds of MB) work but take longer to upload over mobile data — Wi-Fi recommended for big jobs.
When iOS won't convert and you don't want to install Acrobat, open Safari and convert your PDF. Job done.