pdf2docx: Python Library for Converting PDF Files to DOCX with Features, Limitations, Installation, and Example

pdf2docx is a Python library that converts PDF files to DOCX by extracting page layout, margins, columns, headers/footers, paragraphs, text styles, images, and tables using the PyMuPDF and python-docx packages.

Features include parsing and creating page layouts, paragraph formatting (fonts, colors, highlights, underlines, alignment), image handling (inline, grayscale/RGB/CMYK, transparent, floating), table processing (borders, background colors, merged cells, nested tables), and support for multi‑process conversion.

The library also extracts table content and styles, making it useful as a table extraction tool.

Limitations are that it currently does not support OCR for scanned PDFs, only left‑to‑right languages (no Arabic), cannot handle rotated text, and rule‑based parsing cannot guarantee 100% fidelity to the original PDF style.

Installation :

<code>pip install pdf2docx</code>

Example usage :

<code>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)</code>

Running the above script converts the specified PDF into a DOCX file preserving the extracted layout and content.