Windows has bits and pieces of PDF conversion scattered around. Word can open PDFs and save as DOCX. Print to PDF works for the reverse. Edge can export to image. None of it is consistent, and none of it gives you all the conversions in one place.
Flint does, in any browser.
PDF to Word
Word itself opens PDFs and saves them as DOCX, but formatting often shifts dramatically. Flint's PDF-to-Word preserves layout better — text, tables, lists come through cleanly for born-digital PDFs.
Open browser, upload PDF, download DOCX. Open in Word for Windows; edit as a normal document.
PDF to images
Need each page as JPG or PNG? Edge can export individual pages as images via right-click → Save Image, but it's per-page. Flint exports all pages at once — useful for slide decks, social media posts, or expense systems that only accept images.
Reverse conversion
Word doc, Excel sheet, or images to PDF — Word and Excel both have native Save as PDF. For combining images into one PDF, or converting from formats Office doesn't handle, Flint's converter handles it cleanly. Drop files in, get a PDF.
Microsoft Print to PDF
Built into Windows since version 10 — when you 'print' from any app, choose Microsoft Print to PDF as the printer. Saves whatever the app was about to print as a PDF. Universal, free, works in apps that have no native PDF export.
FAQ
Does PDF-to-Word in Flint work better than Word's own?
Usually yes, for layout-heavy PDFs. Word's import sometimes rebuilds the document with shifted margins and reformatted styles. Flint preserves the visual layout more faithfully. For simple text PDFs, both work fine.
Can I convert a scanned PDF to Word?
Yes, but it requires OCR. Flint runs OCR on the scan and outputs editable text. Quality depends on the source scan — clean, high-contrast originals give clean OCR results.
What about PDF to Excel?
Tables in PDFs convert better through specialised tools. Flint handles basic table extraction; for complex spreadsheets, expect cleanup. Acrobat does this better at the cost of subscription.
All your conversions in one place. Open Flint and convert.