How to convert a PDF to an editable Word document on Linux

You don't need special software to convert a PDF to an editable Word document on Linux. FernPDF runs entirely in Firefox or Chrome on Linux: open the tool, drop your file, download the result. The text layer is read in your browser and rebuilt as real, editable paragraphs. Nothing is uploaded.

On Linux, you drag it into the drop zone from your file manager, or click to open the browser's native file picker. Once the editable file is ready, it downloads to your ~/Downloads folder, or wherever your browser's settings point downloads, the same as any other file it saves.

The picker's exact look depends on your desktop environment (GNOME, KDE, Xfce), but the underlying behaviour is identical: it's a standard browser file input, not a custom uploader that behaves differently across distributions.

No hunting for the right CLI flags or building tools from source. A browser is the only dependency, on any distribution.

Every FernPDF tool processes files in your browser: read how the privacy model works, or verify it yourself in your network tab.