3 Ways to Extract Images from a Word File
by Avantix Learning Team | Updated April 7, 2021
Applies to: Microsoft® Word® 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 or 365 (Windows)
In Microsoft Word, images can be extracted one by one or you can extract all images by converting a Word document to a zip file or saving it as a web page. Extracting all images is helpful if you’d like to find pictures that are inflated in size or reuse pictures in other files. In this article, we’ll use 3 methods to extract images (we’re referring to images or pictures that have been inserted into your Word document, not shapes or SmartArt you’ve created).
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Extracting one image at a time using Save as Picture
You can extract individual images and save them as new files using Save As Picture.
There are two benefits to this method:
- You can give each image a meaningful name and save it in a specific location.
- You can save the image as a different file type.
To save an image as a new file:
- Right-click the image and then click Save as Picture from the drop-down menu.
- In the Save as type drop-down menu, select the image file format you want to use. You can save a picture in many formats but common choices are JPG or JPEG (Joint Photographics Experts Group) or PNG (Portable Network Graphics).
- In the File name box, type a name for the file.
- Navigate to the desired location.
- Click Save.
Displaying file extensions in Windows
In order to use the zip procedure (below), you may need to display file extensions in Windows if they are not showing automatically.
If you’re using Windows 8 or 10:
- In File Explorer, click the View tab in the Ribbon.
- In the Show/Hide group, click the File name extensions check box.
If you’re using Windows 7:
- In Windows Explorer, click Folder and Search Options and then click Organize.
- On the View tab, under Files and Folders, clear the check box for Hide extensions for known file types.
- Click OK.
Extracting all images by changing the file to a zip format
If you want to extract all images, the following trick works with any Microsoft Word file using XML (Extensible Markup Language) format. XML files are stored as a package and can therefore be unzipped. They also end with an «x» such as .docx.
In order to use the zip method, you will need a document created in Word 2007 or a later version and File Explorer or Windows Explorer must be set so that it shows file names with extensions (see the following section if extensions are not displayed).
To extract all image files from a Microsoft Word file:
- In File Explorer or Windows Explorer, select the document (it should have a .dotx extension) with the images you wish to extract.
- Right-click and choose Copy or press Ctrl + C.
- Right-click and choose Paste or press Ctrl + V.
- Right-click the copy of the document and choose Rename.
- Change the file extension from .dotx to .zip (Windows must be set to display file extensions).
- Press Enter. A dialog box appears warning you that the file may become unusable if you change the extension.
- Click Yes to continue. The file icon changes to a folder icon.
- Double-click the zipped folder. The zipped folder contains multiple folders (some contain information such as XML code or properties).
- Double-click the Word folder.
- Double-click the media folder to view image, video and audio files. Each file is given a generic name.
- Copy these files (or the entire folder) to another location to use in other documents and to rename the files. Copying to another location will unzip the files. You can also click the Extract button in Windows Explorer to extract the files to another location.
Below is a sample Word folder (with a media folder) created during this process:
Extracting all images by saving the Word file as a web page
Unlike PowerPoint, Microsoft Word files can be saved as web pages (HTML format). If you save a Word file as a web page, then separate files are created for pictures and media files.
To extract all image files from a Microsoft Word file by saving the file as a web page:
- Click the File tab in the Ribbon and select Save As.
- From the Save As Type drop-down menu, select Web Page.
- Enter a new name for the file. A .htm extension will be added.
- Click OK.
- A dialog box may appear indicating that you may lose some formatting. Click Continue. Word will change the view to Web Layout View.
- Close the file.
- In File Explorer or Windows Explorer, navigate to the location in which you had saved the file. A folder should have been created with the same name and «files» at the end.
- Double-click the folder. Image, video and audio files should appear in this folder. Each file is given a generic name.
- Right-click any of the files to rename them.
Below are the contents of a folder that was created when a Word file was saved as a web page:
When you open Word again, click the View tab and select Print Layout (the default view).
It’s up to you which method you’d prefer but the last two are the easiest if you are extracting multiple images.
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Microsoft Word allows us to insert images easily and without reducing any resolution. We might come across a situation where we want to share only images and not the entire document, or you might have deleted all images from your Windows PC and want to get them back from the Word document. Normally, what everyone would do is right-click on the image and select “Save image as”, but that is a time-consuming and tedious task. In this article, I will let you know of three ways to extract all images from Word documents in an easy way without the need for any special tools or 3rd-party software.
There may be other ways to extract all the images from a Word document, but here are the 3 best ways to do it. So, let us start without any ado.
1. Save the Word Document as Web Page
This is one of the easiest methods to extract all images from a Word document. We will save the Word document as a Web Page and it will extract all images as a batch.
Open the Word document from which you want to extract all images. Now, click on the “File” button on the top left of the document and select “Save As”.
Select the location where you want to save and give the meaningful name. Now, under “Save As” dropdown, select “Web Page”.
You will also see “Web Page, Filtered” but do not select it as it may reduce the resolution of images. Click on “Save” button to save the Word document as the Web Page.
Go to the location where you have saved the document and you would see ‘.htm’ file and the folder with the given name will be created.
Open the folder and you could see all the images listed there. Copy all these images to any folder you like.
2. Change the extension from ‘.docx’ to ‘.zip’
This method to extract all images as a batch from the document is so simple that all you need to do is rename the extension of the file from ‘.docx’ to ‘.zip’.
Select the required document, right-click on it and select “Rename”.
Now, change the extension from ‘.docx’ to ‘.zip’ and hit Enter. It will show you this dialog box, but do not worry and click “Yes”.
Use any of the zip extraction software like 7-Zip, WinRAR, etc, to extract this zip file. Give the location where you want to extract the zip folder.
Now, open the folder you have extracted and go to Word > Media.
Now, in the ‘media’ folder you will find all images which you can copy to another folder if you want.
UPDATE: You may just right-click the Word file and use 7-Zip to extract the images.
3. Copy and Paste Method
This method is not as good as the above two, but it would be very helpful when you want to extract one or two images only.
Right-click on the image and select “Copy” from the options. The size and resolution of the copied image will not be affected.
Now, open any image processing tool like Paint, Photoshop or GIMP, but here I would use the default tool called “Paint”. Open Paint, paste the image and press “CTRL+S” or click Save button to save the image.
These are some of the ways to extract images in a Word document as a batch.
If you are looking for a freeware to easily batch extract and save images from any Office document use the Office Image Extraction Wizard.
Also read: How to Find and Replace all Images in Word at once.
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In the following article, we will emphasize on discussing 3 easy and operable ways to extract pictures from Word documents.
Now and then there are times when you need to save all the pictures from a Word document. As a result, here we are to offer you 3 quick ways to extract images with original resolution. Read on to find out more details.
Method 1: Save as Picture
- Firstly, open a Word document which contains images.
- Second, right click a picture to be saved.
- Next choose “Save as Picture” option on the drop-down menu.
- In “File Save” window, choose a location for the image.
- Remember to name the image.
- Then click “Save”.
- To extract all images, however, you have to repeat from step 2 to step 6 so that you can save them one by one.
Method 2: Save as Web Page
- Similarly, open a Word document first.
- Then click “File”.
- Next go to click “Save As” option to open the “Save As” window.
- Choose a location for the document first.
- This time, choose “Web Page” in “Save as type” list box.
- Click “Save”. Now you will notice the document is on a “Web Layout” view.
- Move to the place where you save the document.
- Find the file holder with the document name.
- Next double click to open it.
- Then you can find all images in both original and Word intrinsic resolution.
Method 3: Change File Extension Name from “.docx” to “.zip”
If you decide to use this way to extract images, then you have to make sure the extension of your file is shown first.
Display the File Extension
Below are steps for displaying the file extension:
- To begin with click “Start”.
- Then click “Computer”.
- In the window, click “Organize” first.
- Next, click “Folder and search options”.
- Now the “Folder Options” window will pop up. Firstly, click “View”.
- Then, in the group boxes below the “Advanced settings”, remove the check mark in “Hide extensions for known file types” box.
- Then click “OK”.
Steps to Extract Images
- At the beginning, we suggest you take a backup of your file first in case your file get corrupted.
- Next right click the document.
- Then choose “Rename”.
- Just change “.docx” to “.zip”.
- And press “Enter”.
- Now on your screen there will be a warning message. Click “Yes”.
- You can see the document turns into a zipped folder. Double click to open it.
- Then double click the folder with the name “word”.
- And now you can see a folder with the name “media”. Double click it to view all images in original resolution.
- Next right click the “media” folder.
- Choose “Extract to the specified folder”.
- Finally choose a location to save all the images.
Comparison
| Methods | Similarity | Advantages | Disadvantages |
| Save as Picture | All 3 ways enable you to extract images in original resolution. | Simple | 1. Time-consuming when document has a lot of pictures
2. Only works in Word 2010 and higher versions. |
|
Save as Web Page |
1. Simple
2. You can get images in Word intrinsic resolution as well. 3. You can extract all images at one time. 4. Works for all versions of Word |
None |
|
|
Change Extension from “.docx” to “.zip” |
You can extract all images at one time. |
1. Get images in original resolution only.
2. Only works for .docx documents generated by Word 2007 and higher versions |
Remember to Back up Your Files
To sum up, we mentioned changing document type as well as its extension. Admittedly, these operations are absolutely threatening your file security. Therefore if you don’t want to spend time in word recovery, you should take the time to back up your files before every dangerous move. In the long run, take backups will only cost you minutes but can save you much more valuable time.
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Когда-то давно были задачи по наполнению новосозданного сайта текстами. Несмотря на то, что я просил заказчика предоставить тексты отдельно, а картинки разложить по папкам, тексты я получил с картинками внутри, наверное, заказчик решил, что там будет проще и быстрее, да и файлов меньше. Но к сожалению, при добавлении скопированного из документа текста в админку CMS WordPress, картинки в админку не переносятся. Что как бы логично, потому что у картинок должен быть указан какой-то урл, а в данной ситуации, это не может быть внешний урл, а внутренний не может быть, потому как картинки не загружены в библиотеку медиафайлов. Лучшее решение – запросить картинки у заказчика, но допустим, мы не можем это сделать, тогда надо получить (достать, выкачать, вырезать, высунуть) картинки из имеющегося файла.
Как получить картинки из документа Word формата .doc, .rtf или .docx
- Файл должен быть в формате .docx – если файл в другом формате (например, .doc или .rtf), то достаточно просто пересохранить его в .docx (открыть документ и выбрать “Сохранить как” или CTRL+SHift+S).
- Сделайте копию файла (на всякий случай) и работайте с копией.
- Разрешение .docx нужно заменить на .zip, например, был файл about.docx, а должен получиться about.zip
- Открываем полученный zip-архив любым архиватором, на ОС Windows можно даже встроенным архиватором открыть, и распаковываем данный архив, по итогу получим папку about (в моем примере)
- Открываем полученную из архива папку, заходим в директорию word затем заходим в директорию media и наблюдаем там все картинки из документа.
- Картинки имеют названия в формате image1.png, image2.png – рекомендую дать им какие-то осмысленные имена, и можно использовать.
- После получения картинок, удаляем весь мусор: архив, папку с файлами.
Текста много, а делать это всё 5 секунд.
Today I stumble upon an important issue. I wanted to extract images from my word document but couldn’t because I didn’t know how to do that. That’s when I start digging different ways to extract images from Word document. And because of that, I put together this sweet guide on different ways to extract images from Microsoft Word file without using any third-party software.
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Now let me tell you why I needed to extract images from the word file, today my friend sent me a word document that contains 25-30 images which he was supposed to send me in a zip file, but he totally forgot to add the images to the zip file. Instead, he deleted the images right after he inserted the images in the word document. Thankfully, I still have the word document. After searching on the internet, I was able to find out easy ways to extract images from a word document without using any software.
The easiest way is to open the word document and copy the image you want to extract and paste it inside Microsoft Paint and then save the picture. But the problem with this approach is that to extract 30 images it would take too much time, so instead, we will see 3 easy ways to extract images easily from Word Document without using any software.
Make sure to create a restore point just in case something goes wrong.
Method 1: Rename the .docx file to .zip
1. Make sure your word document is saved with .docx extension, if not then double-click on the word file.
2. Click on File button from the Toolbar and select Save As.
3. Select the location where you want to save this file and then from “Save as type” drop-down, select “Word Document (*.docx)” and click Save.
4. Next, right-click on this .docx file and select Rename.
5. Make sure to type .zip in place of .docx in the file extension and then hit Enter to rename the file.
Note: You may need to give permission by clicking yes to rename the file in destination directory.
6. Again right-click on the zip file and select “Extract Here“.
7. Double-click on the folder (with the same file name as the .docx document) and then navigate to word > media.
8. Inside the media folder, you will find all the images extracted from your word document.
Method 2: Save the Word Document as Web Page
1. Open the Word Document from which you want to extract all the images and then click on File button from the Toolbar and select Save As.
2. Select where you want to save the file, then navigate to desktop or document and from “Save as type” drop-down, select “Web Page (*.html;*.html)” and click Save.
Note: If you want then you can change the name of the file under “Filename”.
3. Navigate to the location you save the above webpage, and here you would see .htm file and a folder with the same name.
4. Double-click on the folder to open it, and here you would see all the images extracted from the Word document.
Method 3: Copy and Paste Method
Use this method when you only need to extract 2-4 images; else, this method would take too much time to extract more than 5 images.
1. Open your word document, select the image you want to extract, and then press Ctrl+C to copy the picture to the clipboard.
2. Next, open Microsoft Paint and press Ctrl+V to paste the picture from the clipboard to paint.
3. Press Ctrl+S to save the image and navigate where you want to save the file then a new name to the file and click Save.
The problem is that the picture you paste in the paint will be of the same size as it appears in Word. And if you want the image to have a better resolution, you will need to first resize the image in the Word document and then paste the picture in paint.
The only question which came to my mind was why the hell Microsoft didn’t include this feature in the Word itself. Anyway, those were the few methods with the help of which you can easily extract images from Word document without using any software. But if you don’t mind using third-party tools, then you could easily extract images from Word using this free software called Office Image Extraction Wizard.
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That’s it you have successfully learned How to Extract Images from Word Document 2022 but if you still have any questions regarding this tutorial then feel free to ask them in the comment’s section.
Бывало ли у вас такое, что в документе Word вы нашли изображение или изображения, которые бы хотелось сохранить и использовать в дальнейшем? Желание сохранить картинку — это, конечно, хорошо, вопрос лишь в том, как это сделать?
Простое “CTRL+C”, “CTRL+V” работает далеко не всегда и не везде, да и в контекстном меню, которое открывается по нажатию на файл, тоже нет пункта “Сохранить”. В этой статье мы расскажем о простом и эффективном способе, с помощью которого можно сохранить картинку из Ворд в JPG или любом другом формате.
Лучшее решение в ситуации, когда нужно сохранить рисунок из Word отдельным файлом, это изменение формата текстового документа. Если говорить точнее, расширение DOCX (или DOC) нужно изменить на ZIP, то есть, сделать из текстового документа архив. Непосредственно внутри этого архива вы сможете найти все содержащиеся в нем графические файлы и сохранить их все или только те, что вам нужны.
Урок: Вставка изображения в Ворд
Создание архива
Прежде, чем приступить к выполнению манипуляций, описанных ниже, сохранить документ, содержащий графические файлы, и закройте его.
1. Откройте папку с документом Word, содержащим необходимые вам картинки, и кликните по нему.
2. Нажмите “F2”, чтобы его переименовать.
3. Удалите расширение файла.
Примечание: Если расширение файла не отображается при попытке его переименовать, выполните следующие действия:
4. Введите новое имя расширения (ZIP) и нажмите “ENTER”.
5. Подтвердите действие, нажав “Да” в появившемся окне.
6. Документ DOCX (или DOC) будет изменен на ZIP-архив, с которым мы и продолжим работать.
Извлечение содержимого из архива
1. Откройте созданный вами архив.
2. Перейдите в папку “Word”.
3. Откройте папку “Media” — именно в ней и будут содержаться ваши картинки.
4. Выделите эти файлы и скопируйте, нажав “CTRL+C”, вставьте их в любое удобное место, нажав “CTRL+V”. Также, вы можете просто перетащить изображения из архива в папку.
Если текстовый документ, который вы преобразовали в архив, все еще нужен вам для работы, повторно изменить его расширение на DOCX или DOC. Для этого воспользуйтесь инструкцией с предыдущего раздела этой статьи.
Стоит отметить, что изображения, которые содержались в документе DOCX, а теперь стали частью архива, сохраняются в своем оригинальном качестве. То есть, даже если в документе большая картинка была уменьшена, в архиве она будет представлена в полном размере.
Урок: Как в Word обрезать изображение
Вот, собственно, и все, теперь вы знаете, как можно быстро и удобно извлекать графические файлы из Ворд. Используя этот простой метод, вы можете вытащить из текстового документа фото или любые картинки, которые в нем содержатся.
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Tips
Word documents containing embedded images can not be easily extracted. Attempts to copy and paste the images result in poor quality images or the document contains too many images to copy them individually.
To extract embedded images from a Word document save the document as a web page using the following steps:
1. On the File menu click Save as Web Page
2. In the Save As drop down select Web Page (*.htm; *.html)
Images will be extracted from the document and placed in the folder named <DocumentName>_files in the same location as the saved web page.
The information in this article applies to Microsoft Word 97, Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, and Microsoft Word 2003