How to convert a PNG to Word with text you can edit

How to convert a PNG to a Word document

1. Pick the PNG. A screenshot, an exported slide or a scanned page saved as PNG. JPG, WEBP and a one-page PDF work too, up to 5 MB.
2. Press Get the text. The first lines appear after a few seconds, so you see the image was readable before you sign in.
3. Type the code from your email. We mail a 6-digit code. It opens the full result and creates a free account if you have none.
4. Download Word (.docx). The text is real text in the file. You can retype a line, change the font or paste it into another document.

With a free account you can convert 10 images a day. For a document of several pages, or to translate the text in the same step, use the LoreAI app. Your first document there is free, up to 3 pages.

Why inserting the PNG into Word is not enough

A PNG stores pixels, not letters. Insert it into Word and you have a picture on the page, which spell check, search and copy all skip. A PNG to Word converter runs optical character recognition (OCR) on the image and writes the letters it finds into the .docx as text.

Screenshots are the easy case for OCR. The text is sharp, straight and printed in a screen font, so there is no blur, shadow or curved page to fight. A screenshot of an email, a chat, a web form or a PDF you can't copy from usually comes back close to word for word.

Screenshots of tables, chats and slides

Table or spreadsheet

Rebuilt as a Word table, one cell per cell. Check merged cells by eye

Chat or message thread

Comes back as lines of text in reading order. Check that each message still sits under its sender

Slide

Title and bullets come back as a heading and a list. Text inside pictures and logos is not read

App or web form

Field labels and the values typed into them come back as text

Crop the screenshot to the part you need before you convert it. Menus, browser tabs and status bars are text too, and the converter reads them along with everything else.

Other free ways to get text out of a PNG

For a few lines of prose, copying with Snipping Tool or Live Text and pasting into Word is the fastest route. A converter earns its place when the screenshot has a table or a long form, where pasted plain text loses its rows.

Can I convert several PNGs into one Word file?

The free converter reads one image at a time. To get one Word file from several screenshots, put them into a single PDF first, for example with Print to PDF on Windows or Export as PDF in Preview on a Mac, and upload that PDF in the LoreAI app. The pages keep their order in Word.

For photos of paper documents rather than screenshots, the photo to Word converter page has tips on light and angle. If you only need the text, not a Word file, use image to text.

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