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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:

1. Right-click the image and then click Save as Picture from the drop-down menu.
2. 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).
3. In the File name box, type a name for the file.
4. Navigate to the desired location.
5. 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:

1. In File Explorer, click the View tab in the Ribbon.
2. In the Show/Hide group, click the File name extensions check box.

If you’re using Windows 7:

1. In Windows Explorer, click Folder and Search Options and then click Organize.
2. On the View tab, under Files and Folders, clear the check box for Hide extensions for known file types.
3. 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:

1. In File Explorer or Windows Explorer, select the document (it should have a .dotx extension) with the images you wish to extract.
2. Right-click and choose Copy or press Ctrl + C.
3. Right-click and choose Paste or press Ctrl + V.
4. Right-click the copy of the document and choose Rename.
5. Change the file extension from .dotx to .zip (Windows must be set to display file extensions).
6. Press Enter. A dialog box appears warning you that the file may become unusable if you change the extension.
7. Click Yes to continue. The file icon changes to a folder icon.
8. Double-click the zipped folder. The zipped folder contains multiple folders (some contain information such as XML code or properties).
9. Double-click the Word folder.
10. Double-click the media folder to view image, video and audio files. Each file is given a generic name.
11. 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:

1. Click the File tab in the Ribbon and select Save As.
2. From the Save As Type drop-down menu, select Web Page.
3. Enter a new name for the file. A .htm extension will be added.
4. Click OK.
5. A dialog box may appear indicating that you may lose some formatting. Click Continue. Word will change the view to Web Layout View.
6. Close the file.
7. 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.
8. Double-click the folder. Image, video and audio files should appear in this folder. Each file is given a generic name.
9. 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 is the world’s most popular word processing software. It offers you a great number of features that would fulfill all your requirements of creating and managing a document. However, a few small things are still missing from MS Word. For example, at times, we want to quickly save all the images embedded in a Word document.

We all sometimes get Word documents that contain a large number of embedded images. If we need all these images saved as separate files, MS World does not provide any straightforward method to do this. Although MS Word itself can do a number of image editing operations within the document but if we want to edit the embedded images in something like Photoshop, we would require images to be saved as separate files. In today’s MS Word trick, let’s learn how to easily save all the images from a Word document.

The Best Method

If you want to save one or few pictures from an MS Word document, you can take right click on the image and select “Save as Picture…” option. This feature has been made available in the recent versions of MS Word. But what if you have 200 images in the document?

The quickest and easiest method of saving all the images from a Word document is to save the document as a webpage. If you know HTML programming, you would understand that a webpage refers to resources like images stored as individual files. So, when we save a Word document as webpage, MS Word document becomes an HTML page and all the embedded images get stored in a separate folder. We can use this operation to get images out of the Word document.

1. Open the MS Word document containing images
2. Go to File and then select Save As
3. Save As dialog box will appear
4. Select Web Page from Save as type list
5. Click Save button to save the document as a webpage
6. Open Windows Explorer and browse to the location where you have saved the document as webpage.
7. In this location, you will find a newly created folder with the same name as that of the MS Word document. This folder will contain all the images that were there in the document. There might be some other files as well, but you can ignore them.
8. You’ve got the images as files. Now you can use or edit them separately.

Alternative Method

This method is useful if you need to save only one or few images as separate files. If the MS Word document contains lots of images and you want to save them all, then the above given method is best.

OK, so this alternative method entails taking a screenshot.

1. Open the document that contains the image.
2. Scroll to the point so that the entire image is visible on your screen.
3. Press Print Scrn key on your keyboard. This will copy the screen’s contents into computer’s memory.
4. Open an image editing tool, like Photoshop. Create a new canvas and press Ctrl + V to paste the memory content.
5. You may need to crop the the image in order to discard the rest of the screen content. Once that is done, save your image as a JPEG or in other formats as you like.

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Hope this tip would save you some precious time. In our own office, we often get documents that are full of images that were supposed to be sent separately! But some folks somehow find it easy to insert all the images in Word document. This causes significant wastage of time if these images were to be used as separate files. If you need to send a number of images to someone, better zip them all and then send. Embedding in an MS Word document is not really a great idea.

Do let us know if you have any question in this regard. We will try our best to assist you. Thank you for using TechWelkin!

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.

How to Save Images from MS Word Document

1. Open the MS Word document containing images.
2. Go to File and then select Save As.
3. Save As dialog box will appear.
4. Select Web Page from Save as type list.
5. Click Save button to save the document as a webpage.

How can I save a picture from a Word document?

Right-click the illustration that you want to save as a separate image file, and then click Save as Picture. In the Save as type list, select the file format that you want. In the File name box, type a new name for the picture, or just accept the suggested file name. Select the folder where you want to store the image.

How do I save an image in a Word document as a JPEG?

Click File and select Export from the dropdown menu. Click on the format and select to save the document as a JPEG file. Use the slider to choose the JPEG quality. Click Save to confirm the conversion.

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.

How do I save an image?

How to Save a Picture From Google on Android and iOS

1. On a phone or tablet, tap the add to collection icon below the selected image; it appears as an outline bookmark icon and has no text.
2. By default, the image will be stored to the ‘Favorites’ collection, or whatever collection you last viewed.

Why can’t I save a Word document as a JPEG?

There’s no built-in option to save a Word document as an image file. To save it as a JPEG, you’ll need to use a screenshotting tool. This’ll allow you to copy a single Word page and save it as an image.

How do I save a Word document as a JPEG in Windows 10?

How to Convert Word to a JPG on a Windows 10 PC

1. Open your Word document.
2. Click the File button.
3. Select the Save As option.
4. From the dropdown menu, select the PDF file extension.
5. Open your PDF to JPEG converter.
6. Click the Select File button.
7. Open the PDF file.
8. Choose a save location.

How do I save an image as a JPEG?

Click the “File” menu and then click the “Save As” command. In the Save As window, choose the JPG format on the “Save As Type” drop-down menu and then click the “Save” button.

How do I save a picture in Word without losing quality?

Resolution

1. Click the Office Button, and then click Save As.
2. Click Tools, and then click Compress Pictures.
3. Click Options.
4. Click to clear the Automatically perform basic compression on save check box.
5. Click OK.
6. In the Compress Pictures dialog box, click Cancel.

How do I stop images from compressing in Word?

Turn off picture compression

1. Click File > Options.
2. In the Options box, click Advanced.
3. In the list at Image Size and Quality, do one of the following. (This example shows the options in Word.)
4. Under Image Size and Quality, select the Do not compress images in file check box.

Extract pictures from Word documents via Pages – Mac OS X Hints. I occasionally receive a MS Word document with embedded pictures which I’m supposed to use further. Once when this happened, there was no time to ask for the original pictures.

How do I save an image to my desktop?

Here’s the simple process:

1. Right-click the image.
2. Choose the command Save Picture As. The command might be different in browsers other than Internet Explorer.
3. Use the Save Picture dialog box to find a location to save the picture.
4. Click the Save button.

How do you save a Word document as a PNG?

How to Convert Microsoft Word DOC to PNG

1. Go to the Toolbar of the Universal Document Converter.
2. Click Convert Document to…
3. Choose PNG Images as the output file and click Save.

How do you save a picture from Word 2007?

In most Microsoft Office applications, you can Right-click on a picture and choose “Save as a Picture” to be able to save that picture to your computer’s hard drive.

How do you save a Word doc as an image on Iphone?

Click File, and then select Save as from the drop-down menu. Click the down arrow on the right side of the Save as type box. Choose which type of image you would like to save your picture as.

How can I turn a PDF into a JPEG?

How to convert PDF to JPG using Acrobat:

1. Open the PDF in Acrobat.
2. Click the Export PDF tool in the right pane.
3. Choose Image as your export format, and then choose JPEG.
4. Click Export. The Save As dialog box is displayed.
5. Select a location where you want to save the file, and then click Save.

How do you save a screenshot as a JPEG?

Select the area you want to take a screenshot of. To save the image, Click File > Save As. Choose to save the file as a JPEG, PNG, or GIF and click Save.

How do I convert a PDF to a JPG in Windows 10?

Click the “View > Tools > Export PDF > Open” in the top menu bar. Then, select “Image” from the “Convert To” dropdown menu, choose the “JPEG” option, and select the quality for your output file. Step 3. When you have specified the conversion options, click “Export to JPEG” to start converting your PDF file to JPG.

Is jpg the same as JPEG?

JPG and JPEG stand both for an image format proposed and supported by the Joint Photographic Experts Group. The two terms have the same meaning and are interchangeable.

What does jpg stand for?

Joint Photographic Experts Group
JPEG (often seen with its file extension . jpg or . jpeg) stands for “Joint Photographic Experts Group“, which is the name of the group who created the JPEG standard.

Why are pictures blurry in Word?

Option #2- Select the picture, go to the ‘Picture Tools’ option that appears at the top of Word. Select either ‘Brightness’ or ‘Contrast’. In either case, highlight over any option that will either increase or decrease, but DO NOT CLICK to make the change!