pdf2docx: Convert PDF to DOCX with Python – Features, Limitations, Installation, and Example

pdf2docx is a Python library that converts PDF files to DOCX by extracting layout, paragraphs, images, tables, and recreating them in a Word document.

Features include page layout parsing (margins, sections, columns), paragraph parsing (text direction, font styles, highlights, links, alignment), image handling (inline, color spaces, transparency, floating), table parsing (borders, background colors, merged cells, nested tables), and support for multi‑process conversion.

Limitations are that it does not support OCR for scanned PDFs, right‑to‑left languages, rotated text, and rule‑based parsing cannot guarantee 100 % style fidelity.

Install the library with pip install pdf2docx and convert a file using:

from pdf2docx import parse

pdf_file = '/path/to/sample.pdf'
docx_file = 'path/to/sample.docx'

# convert pdf to docx
parse(pdf_file, docx_file)

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