Convert PNG to Word: edit the text in a screenshot
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PNG → PDF → DOCX
What PNG to Word gives you
To convert PNG to Word, select or drop your PNG on this page, keep DOCX under Word version and press Convert to DOCX. Our server reads the English words in the picture and hands you a Word document with the same name, so invoice.png comes back as invoice.docx. It works as a PNG to DOCX converter for screenshots of emails, web pages, chats and documents.
You get the words, not the image. Every line of the screenshot becomes a paragraph of its own, a table arrives as lines with its cells separated by spaces, and bold, colours, icons and photos do not come across. Want the screenshot itself inside a document instead? Word does that on its own with Insert, then Pictures.
Behind the button, the PNG is placed on a PDF page and then rebuilt as a Word document, so the route reads PNG → PDF → DOCX and is graded Very good. PNG to DOC takes one step more, since the DOCX is saved again in the older format, and is graded Good enough.
How to convert PNG to DOCX
- 1Select or drop your PNG
Nothing uploads until you press convert.
- 2Choose your options
We show the route and its fidelity grade up front.
- 3Download your Word file
Then it is deleted after 24 hours, automatically.
Lossless pixels with transparency. Screenshots, logos, anything with an edge.
Modern Word. The default way the working world writes things down.
A PDF is a frozen page, so the file is rebuilt, not copied. Expect the odd margin, font or line break to move.
Screenshots and clear text read best
A screenshot is one of the easiest pictures to read: the letters are sharp, level and evenly lit. To find where it still goes wrong, we converted test screenshots of an email with a small table and a button, a phone chat and some code:
| The screenshot | What came back |
|---|---|
| An email from a high-resolution screen, 1,400 pixels wide | Every word right, £1,250.00, René and a phone number included. The table came back as three lines of words. |
| The same email from a standard screen, 700 pixels wide | The body text right, but the bold heading broken in two and the white text on a blue button missed. |
| The email in dark mode, light text on near-black | The same words as the light version. Only the button was missed. |
| The email in small 11-pixel text, standard screen | Slips in words and figures: £36.00 became £96,00 and Item became tom. |
| A phone chat with grey and blue bubbles | The grey bubbles in full. The white text in the blue ones mostly lost: one message came back as just "own tables?" |
| Code from an editor | Every line, but with its indentation gone and the odd bracket or space moved. |
| A long scrolling screenshot, 1,400 × 5,884 pixels | All six copies of the email in it, in order, as one long document. |
Bigger text reads better, so zoom in before you take the screenshot (Ctrl and +, or Cmd and + on a Mac) and leave out menus you do not need. Look closely at anything white on a coloured background, such as buttons and sent messages, since that is what went missing most. Then check names, numbers and prices against the original.
PNGs with a see-through background
Before the words are read, any see-through parts of the PNG are filled with white. Dark lettering on a transparent background reads normally: our black test caption came back word for word. White lettering, such as a caption made for a dark slide, turns white on white and vanishes, and the Word file came back empty with no error.
Turn light text dark first with Invert image colours. It swaps each colour for its opposite and leaves see-through parts as they are, so white letters become black. An inverted copy of our white caption was then read word for word.
Just need the text? Image to Text
Image to Text reads the same English text without making a Word file: the words appear on the page, ready to Copy text or save with Download .txt. It is the quicker choice for a phone number, an address or a paragraph to paste somewhere else. PNG to Word suits a whole message or page you want to edit, keep and send as a document.
- A photo of a printed page is usually a JPG: convert JPG to Word the same way. Its page shows what light, shadow and a tilt do to the result.
- A scanner often saves a TIFF: convert TIFF to Word, which gives one Word file even when the TIFF has several pages.
- Wondering why screenshots are PNGs and photos are JPGs? JPEG vs PNG explains the difference.
- Going the other way, convert Word to PNG to turn the pages of a document into pictures.
Plan limits and when your files are deleted
PNG to Word runs on our server rather than in your browser, so the free plan has limits: three conversions a day, one file at a time, each up to 25 MB, with no account. Screenshots tend to be far smaller; our long test screenshot was 0.8 MB. Pro and Business take files up to 100 MB with no daily cap, and up to 100 PNGs in one go. Your PNG and its Word file are both deleted 24 hours after each conversion.
Questions people ask
How do I convert a PNG to Word?
Select or drop the PNG on this page; nothing uploads until you press convert. Under Word version, keep DOCX (Word) or pick DOC (Word 97), press Convert to DOCX (or Convert to DOC) and download the Word file. It keeps the PNG's name, so chart.png comes back as chart.docx.
Is the text from my PNG editable in Word?
Yes. The words come back as ordinary Word paragraphs that you can change, copy and restyle. Each line of the screenshot is its own paragraph, so you may want to join lines that belong to one sentence. Text recognition can misread a character, most often in small text, so check figures and names.
Does the PNG image appear in the Word file?
No. Only the words go into the document. The screenshot itself, and any icons, photos or logos in it, are left out. To place the picture in a Word document as it is, insert it in Word.
Can I save my PNG as an older .doc file?
Yes. Pick DOC (Word 97) under Word version and the button becomes Convert to DOC. The text is the same as in a .docx; the file takes one more step to make, so PNG to DOC is graded Good enough rather than Very good. The page suggests DOC only for software from before 2007.
Can it read a dark mode screenshot?
Yes. In our test, an email in dark mode, light text on a near-black background, came back with the same words as the light version. White text on a coloured button or a blue chat bubble was less reliable, so check those parts.
Why did my Word file come back empty?
Usually because the PNG holds white or very light text on a see-through background. See-through parts are filled with white before the words are read, so the text disappears. Make the text dark with Invert image colours and convert again. A picture with no printed text in it gives an empty file too.
Is converting PNG to Word free?
Yes. Up to 25 MB and three conversions a day are free, with no account. Pro and Business lift the file limit to 100 MB and remove the daily cap.
What happens to my files?
Both your PNG and the Word we produce are deleted 24 hours after each conversion, automatically. Try again and Continue to another tool start a new conversion, with its own 24 hours. Nothing is used for training and no human looks at your documents.
Will the Word look exactly like the PNG?
This pair grades as “Very good”. We show the exact route and that grade before you convert, so there are no surprises about what survives the trip.
Do I need to install anything?
No. Nothing to install. Pick or drop a file here, it's converted on our servers, and you download the result.
How large can my file be?
25 MB on the free plan, and 100 MB on Pro and Business.
Can I convert several files at once?
On Pro and Business, yes: add up to 100 files before converting. The free plan converts one file at a time.
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