Why does PDF to Word lose my layout?
The tool extracts the text and its line structure and writes a valid .docx. It doesn't 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's no OCR here. If the tool finds nothing to extract, it tells you instead of handing back an empty file.
Why did compressing my PDF make the text unselectable?
Compression re-renders each page as an image, which is what makes the file smaller. Links, form fields and searchable text don't survive that. On a text PDF that's already optimised it can even make the file bigger. When that happens, the tool tells you and offers the original back.
What happened to the PowerPoint converter?
It was withdrawn. It never worked, and there's no honest way to render slide layouts in a browser without a rendering engine we can't ship. Exporting to PDF from PowerPoint itself gives a better result than anything we could have built.