
Using pdf2docx library, we can perform the conversion in a few lines of code. For example, here is my setup: How to convert PDF files to docx format using Python Once you have downloaded the file, place it in the same folder as you Python file. The file I will be using for this article is here. In order to follow the examples shown below, you will need to have a PDF file to make the conversion to docx format. If you don’t have it installed, please open “Command Prompt” (on Windows) and install it using the following code: To continue following this tutorial we will need the following Python libraries: pdf2docx and docx2pdf.

In this article we will see how to easily and efficiently perform this conversion. However, in a lot of instances, we don’t want to only export certain parts of the PDF, rather than convert the whole PDF file to docx to allow for editing. In one of our tutorials explaining how to work with PDF files in Python, and specifically how to extract tables from PDF files, we focused on PDF files with tables.
