feat(documents): PDF to Word (DOCX) with OCR fallback - #156
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Convert a PDF to an editable .docx entirely client-side: - Extract positioned text per page with pdf.js, then reconstruct real paragraphs and headings (heuristic line/paragraph grouping + font-size heading detection) so the Word output is editable and reflowable. - Pages with little/no selectable text (scanned/image PDFs) fall back to on-device OCR (PaddleOCR, reused from the OCR tool); a 'Force OCR' toggle runs OCR on every page. - Generate the .docx in-browser with the 'docx' library (MIT). Per-page progress; page breaks between pages. Nothing is uploaded. Honest about limits: PDF stores positioned glyphs, not paragraphs, so exact layout / tables / multi-column pages are reconstructed heuristically and may need cleanup — surfaced in the UI. Pure reconstruction lib with 8 unit tests. Bilingual (EN + ID) UI, SEO and OG. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ubfx4XocHcECaL8twp9zsr
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What
New PDF to Word (DOCX) converter — turns a PDF into an editable
.docxentirely client-side, with on-device OCR for scanned pages. Nothing is uploaded.How
docxlibrary (MIT) generates the Word file in-browser; per-page progress; page breaks between pages.Honest limits (surfaced in the UI)
PDF stores positioned glyphs, not paragraphs — so the output is editable, reflowable text, not a pixel-perfect copy. Exact layout, tables and multi-column pages are reconstructed heuristically and may need cleanup. Faithful table/column reconstruction needs a server-side/ML engine, which would break the client-side promise.
Details
src/tools/documents/pdf-docx.lib.ts— puregroupLines/paragraphsFromLines/reconstruct/textDensity; 8 unit testssrc/islands/documents/PdfToDocx.tsx— pdf.js extraction + OCR fallback + docx generation; full worker/page cleanupdocx9.7.1 (MIT, audit-clean). Registeredpdf-to-docx(beta); EN + ID SEO + OGtsc --noEmitclean for touched files · build green🤖 Generated with Claude Code