Why does PDF to Word lose my layout?
The tool extracts the text and its line structure and writes a valid .docx. It does not reconstruct fonts, images, tables, columns or positioning, because doing that faithfully needs a full document rendering engine. You get editable words, not a visual copy.
Can it read a scanned document?
No. A scan is a picture of text with no character data behind it, and there is no OCR here. The tool tells you when it found nothing to extract rather than handing back an empty file.
Why did compressing my PDF make the text unselectable?
Compression works by re-rendering each page as an image, which is what makes the file smaller. Links, form fields and searchable text do not survive that. On an already-optimised text PDF it can also make the file bigger — when it does, the tool says so and offers the original back.
What happened to the PowerPoint converter?
It was withdrawn. It never worked, and there is no honest way to render slide layouts in a browser without a rendering engine we cannot ship. Exporting to PDF from PowerPoint itself gives a better result than anything we could have built.