Convert Word to JPG

To convert Word to JPEG, select or drop your .docx or .doc file here, choose a Resolution and an Image quality, and press Convert to JPEG. The same steps cover DOCX to JPG and DOC to JPG, and every page of the document comes back as a picture of its own: one JPG for a one-page file, or a ZIP of pages, in order, for anything longer.

People turn Word to JPG when a page has to travel as a picture: an upload form or a website that only takes images, one page to share in a chat, or a quick look at a document for someone who has no Word. JPG opens almost everywhere, which makes it the usual pick for a Word to image job. Pictures in the document come through as they sit on the page, and each JPG is the whole page, margins included.

The trade-off is that the page becomes flat. JPG compresses the picture, so sharp edges such as letters pick up a slight fuzz, and the words can no longer be selected or edited. When the text must stay text, keep the text selectable as a PDF instead.

The Word to JPG converter gives you two settings. Resolution, in dots per inch (DPI), decides how many pixels each page gets: 96, 150 or 300 DPI, with 150 as the default. Image quality decides how hard each picture is squeezed: Smaller, Balanced (the default) or Best. Raise either and the page gets sharper and the file bigger. We converted one US Letter page packed with text at every setting:

A lighter page, a heading and three short paragraphs, came out at 154 KB at the default settings. An A4 page is a little narrower and taller than Letter: 1241 × 1754 pixels at 150 DPI.

• 96 DPI suits pages that will only be read on a screen.
• 150 DPI suits most sharing: chats, email and web forms.
• 300 DPI is for printing, or for small print someone will zoom into.
• Balanced suits most pages, Best keeps more detail, and Smaller is for strict size limits, such as a form that caps each upload.

When you convert Word to JPG here, your file is laid out as a PDF first, and then each page is drawn as a JPG, just as when you turn a PDF into JPGs. Anything longer than one page arrives as a single ZIP, and the done screen tells you how many pictures are inside. The pages carry three-digit numbers, so page 10 still sorts after page 9 in any folder.

The page limit is 100 per document. Since a Word file has no fixed pages until it is laid out, a longer one is stopped at that point, and the message gives its page count so you know where to split it. A whole document counts as one of your three free conversions a day, however long it is.

Old Word 97 files (.doc) work the same way as .docx, with no need to resave them first. Microsoft's fonts are not on our server, so free fonts of the same widths stand in for Calibri, Arial and Times New Roman, and text takes the same room as in Word. Aptos, Word's default font since 2023, has no free twin: it is drawn in Liberation Sans, so a line can wrap a little differently.

A PowerPoint deck, a web page or a plain text file can become pictures the same way: convert PowerPoint to JPG gives one picture per slide, convert HTML to JPG lays an .html file out on A4 pages first, and convert text to JPG sets a .txt file on A4 pages in a fixed-width font.

Both formats give you a picture of each page, but they store it differently. JPG throws away a little fine detail to save space, which shows as a faint haze around letters and lines. PNG is lossless: every pixel stays exactly as it was drawn.

For a page of words, PNG costs no extra space. In our tests at 150 DPI, the short page of text was 154 KB as a Balanced JPG and 149 KB as a PNG, and the full page 413 KB against 416 KB. A page with a large photo turned the result around: 146 KB as a JPG against 667 KB as a PNG.

So for letters, forms, CVs and other pages that are mostly text, save the pages as PNG instead. Pick JPG when the page carries photos, or when the site you are sending it to asks for JPG.