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Image to Word: a photo of a page becomes an editable document
Image to Word in iEdit reads the printed text in a photo on your iPhone, iPad or Android phone and writes it into a Word document (DOCX), one page per image. Recognition and writing both happen on the device; the photo is not uploaded.
Overview
Choose one photo or several, and iEdit recognises the text in each and writes a DOCX with one page per image. Open it in Word, Pages or Google Docs and the words are editable text, ready to be corrected, reformatted or pasted elsewhere. A photo of a typed letter, a printed recipe or a page of a textbook becomes a document you can work with rather than a picture you can only look at.
Recognition runs on your device in nine scripts: Latin, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Devanagari, Cyrillic, Arabic, Thai and Greek, with the default following your app language. Hold the phone flat, fill the frame and shoot in good light for the cleanest result. The document contains the recognised text, not the photo, so figures and illustrations are not carried over, and handwriting is not read.
Students use it for handouts, researchers for pages from library books, and anyone who has been handed a printed form that has to be filled in digitally. Because nothing leaves the phone, a photo of a medical report or a payslip can be converted without a copy going anywhere. The DOCX saves to My files free.
Why people use it
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One page per photo
Several photos become one document, in the order you picked them, a page each.
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Editable, not a picture
The recognised words are real Word text you can correct, restyle and reuse.
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Nothing uploaded
Text recognition and the DOCX writer both run on your phone, offline once any model is present.
How to use Image to Word in iEdit
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Open iEdit and tap Image to Word.
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Pick one or more photos of printed pages.
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Wait while iEdit recognises the text and writes a page per photo.
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Open the DOCX from My files, or share it to Word with Premium.
Frequently asked questions
Which languages can Image to Word recognise?
Printed text in Latin scripts (English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish and more), Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Devanagari, Cyrillic, Arabic, Thai and Greek. On Android, Cyrillic, Arabic, Thai and Greek, and on iPhone Greek, use a one-time model download that iEdit asks you about first.
Is the photo sent anywhere to be converted?
No. The text is recognised on your device with the engine built into iOS or Android, or a downloaded Tesseract model, and the Word file is written there too. No account is needed, nothing goes to a server, and the conversion works without an internet connection.
Do I have to pay to convert an image to Word?
Converting is free and the DOCX is saved to My files. Sharing it to Word or another app, or saving it to Files, is part of iEdit Premium, an optional monthly subscription with a 3-day free trial that you can cancel before it renews.
Try Image to Word in iEdit
Available for iPhone, iPad and Android.