How do I convert a JPG to a Word document?

Choose, drop or paste the JPG, turn it upright if it is sideways, and crop it to the text if the picture holds more than you need. Press Read text and the words appear in the review pane, where you can correct them. Download under Word document then saves a .docx with one paragraph for each line of the pane, on A4 pages with one-inch margins.

Is my image uploaded anywhere?

No. The image is decoded and read in your browser tab by Tesseract, whose code and English model this site serves as fixed files. Nothing about the image or its text is sent to this site or to anyone else. The only things saved, on your device, are your line break and word box settings.

Does it keep the layout, tables and fonts of the original?

No. It reads text, not design: a table comes out as lines of words, and fonts, sizes, colours and pictures are not carried over. Choose As printed to keep every printed line break, or Paragraphs to join each paragraph's lines into one, which is usually easier to edit in Word.

Can it read handwriting or languages other than English?

No. The model is Tesseract's fast English model for printed text. Handwriting and other languages come out wrong or not at all, so check anything like that word by word, or use a tool built for it.

Why are some words outlined in red?

Every word Tesseract finds gets a box on the image. Words it scored below 60 out of 100 are outlined in red, and the Word boxes line names the lowest-scoring word, so you know where to look first. A high score is not a promise that the word is right, so read the rest too.

Which files work, and is there a size limit?

JPG and PNG, recognised by their contents rather than their names. A HEIC photo, WebP, GIF, BMP, TIFF or PDF is named and turned away with what to do instead; for a PDF, use Searchable PDF OCR to read selected pages and export Word text directly. To review one PDF page as an image here, PDF to Image can render it to JPG or PNG first. There is no file size limit, but anything over 12 megapixels is scaled down to fit 12 before reading, and so is an image with a side longer than 16,384 pixels, so crop a large photo to the text to keep the words sharp. The first read in a tab also loads the OCR engine, 8.1 MB, from this site.

Can I convert a scanned PDF or several images into one Word document?

This tool opens one JPG or PNG at a time; it does not queue a folder of pictures. For a scanned PDF, Searchable PDF OCR can read selected pages and export their recognized text into one Word file. For several saved pictures, combine them with Image to PDF first, then run that PDF through OCR. Both OCR tools read printed English and do not rebuild the original layout.

Will I be able to edit the words, or is the JPG just inserted into Word?

You can edit the words. OCR recognizes text, the review pane lets you correct it, and the Word export contains paragraphs of that text. It does not merely place a photograph on a Word page. Check the pane before downloading: recognition can confuse letters, punctuation and line breaks.

Does it export DOC, DOCX or TXT?

Word document downloads a modern .docx file that compatible word processors can edit. Plain text downloads a UTF-8 .txt file, and Copy uses the current review text. Both files include your corrections, with XML-incompatible control characters removed. The tool does not write the older binary .doc format.

Can this turn a Word document into JPG or translate text?

No. Its input is a JPG or PNG and its output is recognized English text. It does not render Word pages to images or translate between languages. To render a PDF that you have already exported from Word, use PDF to Image .

Image to Word

Convert a JPG or PNG of printed English into an editable Word document. Crop the picture to the text, turn it upright and choose Read text, then correct the recognized words in the review pane before downloading .docx or .txt. Word boxes help you compare the text with the image, with uncertain words marked in red. Recognition runs in your browser without uploading the image or requiring an account. The output contains text rather than the original page design; images larger than 12 megapixels are scaled down before reading.

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Choose, drop or paste a JPG or PNG, turn it upright and crop it to the text if you need to, then press Read text. Correct any word in the review pane before you export: reading again, or choosing another image, replaces that text.

Word document.docx, one paragraph per line
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Plain text.txt, UTF-8
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Word boxesoutlined on the image
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Read in this tab, with files this site serves. The engine is tesseract.js 7.0.0 with tesseract.js-core 7.0.0, LSTM build without SIMD, and the model is tessdata_fast English (eng.traineddata), SHA-256 beginning 7d4322bd2a77, retrieved 2026-09-21. The model is checked against that pinned checksum before any text is read, and a mismatch stops the tool instead of guessing. The image is never uploaded; only your line break and word box settings are remembered on this device. Credit: Tesseract.js and tessdata_fast, both under the Apache License 2.0 (engine licence, model licence, bundled notices).

Common questions

How do I convert a JPG to a Word document?: Choose, drop or paste the JPG, turn it upright if it is sideways, and crop it to the text if the picture holds more than you need. Press Read text and the words appear in the review pane, where you can correct them. Download under Word document then saves a .docx with one paragraph for each line of the pane, on A4 pages with one-inch margins.
Is my image uploaded anywhere?: No. The image is decoded and read in your browser tab by Tesseract, whose code and English model this site serves as fixed files. Nothing about the image or its text is sent to this site or to anyone else. The only things saved, on your device, are your line break and word box settings.
Does it keep the layout, tables and fonts of the original?: No. It reads text, not design: a table comes out as lines of words, and fonts, sizes, colours and pictures are not carried over. Choose As printed to keep every printed line break, or Paragraphs to join each paragraph's lines into one, which is usually easier to edit in Word.
Can it read handwriting or languages other than English?: No. The model is Tesseract's fast English model for printed text. Handwriting and other languages come out wrong or not at all, so check anything like that word by word, or use a tool built for it.
Why are some words outlined in red?: Every word Tesseract finds gets a box on the image. Words it scored below 60 out of 100 are outlined in red, and the Word boxes line names the lowest-scoring word, so you know where to look first. A high score is not a promise that the word is right, so read the rest too.
Which files work, and is there a size limit?: JPG and PNG, recognised by their contents rather than their names. A HEIC photo, WebP, GIF, BMP, TIFF or PDF is named and turned away with what to do instead; for a PDF, use <a href="/searchable-pdf-ocr">Searchable PDF OCR</a> to read selected pages and export Word text directly. To review one PDF page as an image here, <a href="/pdf-to-image">PDF to Image</a> can render it to JPG or PNG first. There is no file size limit, but anything over 12 megapixels is scaled down to fit 12 before reading, and so is an image with a side longer than 16,384 pixels, so crop a large photo to the text to keep the words sharp. The first read in a tab also loads the OCR engine, 8.1 MB, from this site.
Can I convert a scanned PDF or several images into one Word document?: This tool opens one JPG or PNG at a time; it does not queue a folder of pictures. For a scanned PDF, <a href="/searchable-pdf-ocr">Searchable PDF OCR</a> can read selected pages and export their recognized text into one Word file. For several saved pictures, combine them with <a href="/image-to-pdf">Image to PDF</a> first, then run that PDF through OCR. Both OCR tools read printed English and do not rebuild the original layout.
Will I be able to edit the words, or is the JPG just inserted into Word?: You can edit the words. OCR recognizes text, the review pane lets you correct it, and the Word export contains paragraphs of that text. It does not merely place a photograph on a Word page. Check the pane before downloading: recognition can confuse letters, punctuation and line breaks.
Does it export DOC, DOCX or TXT?: Word document downloads a modern .docx file that compatible word processors can edit. Plain text downloads a UTF-8 .txt file, and Copy uses the current review text. Both files include your corrections, with XML-incompatible control characters removed. The tool does not write the older binary .doc format.
Can this turn a Word document into JPG or translate text?: No. Its input is a JPG or PNG and its output is recognized English text. It does not render Word pages to images or translate between languages. To render a PDF that you have already exported from Word, use <a href="/pdf-to-image">PDF to Image</a>.

Printed English is read by a pinned Tesseract model in your browser, and OCR can still misread characters, most often in photos and small print. It does not read handwriting, rebuild tables or keep the page layout, so check the text against the image before you rely on it. The Word and text files hold exactly what is in the review pane.