Convert Image to Word

Turn a photo, screenshot or scan of a page into an editable Word document with OCR

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Turn an image of a page into an editable Word document with OCR

A picture of a page - a photo from a phone, a screenshot, a file from a scanner - holds no text, only pixels. Paste it into Word and you get the same picture in a document: nothing in it can be selected, corrected or copied. This app rebuilds the page instead. The words and their positions come from recognition, the structure of the page - headings, columns, tables, captions - is worked out separately, and the page is written again as real text, real tables and real pictures in a Word (.docx) file.

It takes the formats pictures of pages usually come in: JPG and JPEG, PNG, BMP, WEBP and TIFF. A multi-page TIFF, as document scanners save it, is read frame by frame. Upload several pictures at once and they become the pages of one document in the order you added them, so a contract photographed page by page comes back as one contract, not as a pile of files.

A picture has no paper size of its own, so you choose the sheet. On A4 or Letter each picture is laid whole in the middle of the page, turned to portrait or landscape to match it; "As in the picture" keeps the picture's own proportions. Photos are turned upright from the orientation the camera recorded, so a page shot sideways does not come back sideways.

Because the structure is found before the text is placed, a table in the picture comes back as a table with its own columns, not as a wall of loose lines, and a form comes back as its captions and values in pairs. The language is worked out from the page itself. Words that recognition is unsure of are read again from the picture rather than guessed, and numbers and identifiers are never rewritten. When the file is ready, one line tells you how many pages were rebuilt, how many words were corrected and how many were left in doubt.

There are limits worth knowing. The text is rewritten in one standard font, so the page will not match the picture letter for letter: the layout is kept, the typography is not. Handwriting is not what recognition is built for. A blurred, dark or low-resolution picture, or a page photographed at a steep angle, costs accuracy on every step. Read the result before you rely on it, and keep your original.

Nothing to install: the work is done on our servers, with no registration and no CAPTCHA. Up to 10 files at a time, 10 MB each. Uploaded files and download links are removed after 24 hours.

How to convert an image to Word online

OCR reads the words in the picture and where they sit, the structure of the page is worked out separately, and the page is written again as real text, tables and pictures in a .docx.

  1. Upload the pictures - drag them into the drop area or click there to pick them. They become the pages of one document in the order you add them.
  2. Choose the page size: A4 or Letter lays each picture whole on a standard sheet, "As in the picture" keeps its own proportions.
  3. Click CONVERT. Every picture is turned upright and recognised, its structure is worked out, and doubtful words are read again from the picture.
  4. Read the summary line: how many pages were rebuilt, how many words were corrected, how many were left in doubt.
  5. Download the .docx and edit it in Word, Google Docs or Pages, checking the words the summary left in doubt.

Files are deleted from our servers after 24 hours, and download links stop working after that.

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