Change a JPG to Word and edit the text

To change a picture to Word, select or drop a JPG of printed text on this page, keep DOCX under Word version, press Convert to DOCX and download the result. This JPG to Word converter reads the English words in the photo on our server and writes them into a Word document named after the picture: letter.jpg comes back as letter.docx.

You get the words, not the photo. Each line of the picture becomes its own paragraph, so a sentence that ran onto a second line is split in two, and joining those lines is the main tidying job. A bold heading comes back as plain text, a table as lines of words without its grid, and any logo or drawing on the page is left out.

So image to Word here means text you can edit, not a copy of the page. If you want the picture itself in a Word document, insert it in Word (Insert, then Pictures): there is nothing to convert.

The text reader is set up for English and works best on printed text that is sharp, straight and evenly lit. To show how much each of those matters, we converted test pictures of printed pages here, each with one fault:

So take the photo straight on, in good light, with no shadow across the page, and fill the frame with it. Turn a sideways picture upright with Rotate image first. For a page in columns, cut each column into its own picture with Crop image and convert them one at a time.

Other languages lose their accents. In a French letter, à became a, fêtes became fétes and François became Francois, and one line moved out of order. Whatever the language, check names, numbers and prices before you rely on the text.

Both read English text on our server. Image to Text shows the words on the page with a Copy text button, or saves them as a .txt file, and takes JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, TIFF or SVG. This page gives you a Word document instead. Pick Image to Text for a quote or a phone number, and JPG to Word for a letter or a page you will rework and save.

• A screenshot is usually a PNG: convert PNG to Word the same way. Not sure which kind of file you have? JPEG vs PNG explains the difference.
• A scanner's TIFF file: convert TIFF to Word. In our test, a two-page TIFF came back as one Word file with both pages.
• A scanned PDF: convert PDF to Word, which reads the English words on scanned pages the same way.
• Going the other way, convert Word to JPG to turn each page of a document into a picture.

The free plan gives three conversions a day, one file at a time, each up to 25 MB, with no account. Pro and Business take files up to 100 MB with no daily cap, and up to 100 files at once. Your JPG and the Word file are both deleted 24 hours after each conversion.

Each JPG becomes its own Word file. To get photos of several pages into one document, put them into one PDF with JPG to PDF, a page per photo, then convert that PDF to Word. In our test, a PDF of two page pictures came back as one Word file, each page starting on a new page.