About the Image to Word
Turn a photo of a document, a scan or a screenshot into a Word document you can edit, with the text at the size, colour and weight it had in the image, instead of typing it all out again.
Before you download, the page is shown with the text that was read, and you can click any line to correct it. Everything happens in your browser; the image isn't uploaded.
How it works
The image is read with OCR (optical character recognition). For every line the tool measures its position, letter size, colour and whether it is bold. Lines that belong together become one Word paragraph that wraps naturally, so you can add or remove words without breaking the layout; bigger lines become headings.
Coloured areas behind text, such as a note box or a button, become paragraph shading in the same colour, thin lines become borders, and icons, logos and pictures are cut from the image and placed in the document. White text on a coloured button is read on its own, so it isn't lost.
Words the reader isn't sure of, and codes that mix letters and digits, are underlined in orange on the page so you can check them before the Word file is made. Urdu and Arabic paragraphs are marked right to left.
Assumptions and limits
- Works best on clear printed or on-screen text: screenshots, scans and sharp, straight photos of pages. Handwriting can't be read.
- Latin text is set in Arial, monospaced text in Courier New and Urdu or Arabic in Noto Naskh Arabic; if that font isn't on your computer, Word shows the text in a similar one.
- Word lays text out in flowing paragraphs, so icons sit on their own lines rather than exactly beside a word, and the edges of panels become lines above and below them.
- One image becomes one page. Images up to 50 MB; very large ones are scaled down to about 3000 pixels on the long side to read them.
Worked examples
A photo of a printed letter
The heading comes back as a Word heading in its colour, the paragraph as one paragraph you can edit freely, and bold words stay bold.
A screenshot of a web page
Labels, paragraphs and links keep their grey and blue, the code box keeps its grey shading, and the white text on a blue button stays white on blue.
A notice in Urdu
Choose Urdu and the lines come back right to left, with any English lines read as English.
How to use the Image to Word
- Upload your picture. Any JPG, PNG or WebP: a phone photo of a page, a scan or a screenshot.
- Check what was read. Choose the text's language, then look over the page and correct any line by clicking it.
- Download the Word file. Pick A4, Letter or the image's own size and save the .docx.
Frequently asked questions
Will the Word document look like my image?
The text keeps its size, colour and weight, headings stay headings, and coloured boxes keep their colour as shading. Word flows text in paragraphs, so the page is laid out the Word way: easy to edit, though not pixel for pixel.
What does the orange underline mean?
It marks a word that may have been misread, so you can look at it before the Word file is made. Codes made of letters and digits are always marked, because OCR easily mixes up look-alikes such as 1 and l, or 0 and O.
Does my picture get uploaded?
No. Reading the text and writing the .docx both happen in your own browser, so the picture never reaches our server. The only download is the language data for the text reader, fetched from our site the first time you pick a language.
Can it read Urdu?
Yes. Choose Urdu and the text is read together with any English on the page. Urdu paragraphs are marked right to left in Word; reading accuracy is a little lower than for English, so check the underlined words.
Should I use Image to Word or Image to Editable PDF?
Use Image to Word when you want to rewrite or reuse the text, since Word paragraphs reflow as you type. Use Image to Editable PDF when the page must look exactly like the image but with real, selectable text.
This tool runs entirely in your browser. What you enter or upload stays on your device and is never sent to our servers.