PNG refers to Portable Network Graphics, is a lossless image format. It is web-friendly and high quality, so when we take screenshots of some files, the screenshot will be saved in a PNG format by default. And I bet most of us may have the need to copy texts from PNG to editable Word or extract data from PNG to editable Excel.
Therefore, we are here to offer multiple workarounds to convert PNG into editable Word, convert PNG to Excel or to other formats. Also, we have tested dozens of online PNG to Word converters and picked the one that worth a try.
To convert PNG to editable Word document, we need the help of OCR technology. OCR means the electronic conversion of turning image-based text to encoded text that can be understood by your computer or other devices. It is lucky that we have multiples OCR tools to convert PNG to editable Word without format loss.
The greatest advantage of using a program lies in productivity boost, while online solutions generally takes longer time and more efforts to perform the same conversion. So, a great part of users pick offline solutions, which combine various conversion features in only one package, and cost least time or efforts to get an expected conversion. Here we pick 2 converter tools, for mac users and windows users respectively.
PDF Converter OCR for mac, released in 2013, has long been deemed as a powerful PDF converter for mac to save any PDFs as 10+ formats. But it now evolves to be an image converter to perform conversion between different image files, also an accurate OCR program to make PDFs and images in editable formats, such as searchable PDF, editable Word, Excel, Text, PowerPoint, Keynotes, Pages, RTFD, HTML, ePub.
Even, to meet mac users’ needs on file conversion, PDF Converter OCR has built in a PDF Creator allowing users to convert virtually any documents into PDF, still, you can customize these PDF outputs by adding security and optimizing its size.
Key Features:
Once all the PNG files are ready in the program, the OCR button will be turned ON by default. Choose the file language, it can recognize 27 popular languages. Then choose the output as “Doc” or “Docx” or "Excel", or any other preferred output format;
For more accurate OCR results, you can click the "Settings" icon. Rotate the file if it is inverted. Also, you will notice that the OCR applied zone are automatically marked as Texts, Images or Tables in different colorful areas, you need to check if all OCR applied zone is marked correctly, if not or improperly, manually adjust. For example, if you want to output a part as Excel, remove the mark box in this zone, click on "Mark Tables" in the OCR applied zone, then drag a mark box to select those contents you want to mark as Tables. You can resize the mark box by dragging its corners.
Also, you can refer to following YouTube tutorial video:
Readiris PDF Standard for Windows, is known as a competent OCR program to recognize scanned PDF and image files. There is a powerful OCR engine built in this program to guarantee an accurate and precise OCR or conversion. That’s to say, no matter how complicate your files are, Readiris PDF Standard for Windows can excellently recognize your file and export as well-formatted editable files, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Text, etc.
We have tested nearly all online free PNG to Word converters recommended online, we finally pick online2pdf and Google Docs. Both of them are, in some ways, free all-in PDF program with OCR capability, to edit, convert and manage PDF files or images online. With these two program, you can convert PDF and image into Word, Excel, Text, PowerPoint , OpenOffice, RTF or other formats.
It is an online free PDF tools with rich features, allowing users to edit, convert, merge, split, compress, unlock, protect PDFs without installing any software. It supports batch conversion and customizing output files by tweaking the preferences.
If you have a Google account, you can use its Google Drive service to convert a PNG to editable Word, Text or other formats. Google Drive is the platform Google offers to manage files online.
As you may have noticed, Google Docs cannot maintain the original file quality, you will need to spend some time on manually adjustments.
Adobe is always the killer if you are desk-bound, assuming you have thrown a lot of money on Adobe Acrobat, you don’t need to resort to other solutions on PNG to Word or PNG to Excel conversion.
Admittedly, Adobe doesn’t allow importing PNG or other image files directly, but you can create a PDF from image first, then convert PDF to Word or Excel. Here is how we convert PNG to Word or Excel in Adobe:
Definitely, there are more apps as robust as Adobe but with high cost, also there are more free services as convenient as online2pdf but with limited features. This is just the reason why I prefer a professional converter that is acceptable in terms of price and performance. It is lucky to have such tools as PDF Converter OCR, which is capable of killing all the problems in file conversion.
Connie has been writing for Mac productivity and utility apps since 2009. Each review and solution is based on her practical tests, she is aways energetic and trustworthy in this field.
thomas
thanks