JPEG to a Word Document

[JeanJeannie0001]

Hi All
I had a Word document that I created for a friend and he accidentally saved
it as a JPEG. Now I can view it but can't edit the text or make changes.
Does anyone know how to change it back to a Word Document? I tried to save it
so it would open in Word but it didn't work.
Thank you,

 

[Graham Mayor]

A jpeg is a graphical image - like a photograph! Word has no in built
function to do this, so it is difficult to see how he 'accidentally' saved
it as a jpeg. Whatever method he used to create a jpeg (eg printing to
SnagIt) would leave the original document.

Word has no ability to open jpeg files either. You can insert them (like a
picture) bit that's about it. If you can open the file in Word, something
else has occurred.

The only way to change a jpeg document back to a Word document would be to
use OCR software.

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[JeanJeannie0001]

Hi Graham

Thank you for your help. What is OCR software? Optical something something?

JeanJeannie

 

[Graham Mayor]

Optical Character Reading - it converts images of text to text ... in
theory

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Optical Character Recognition: converts graphics to text.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Duncan McC]

Hi All
I had a Word document that I created for a friend and he accidentally saved
it as a JPEG. Now I can view it but can't edit the text or make changes.
Does anyone know how to change it back to a Word Document? I tried to save it
so it would open in Word but it didn't work.
Thank you,

Per what Graham and Suzanne said, but adding... do you have the Office
Suite with OneNote? - as, IIRC, OneNote has OCR functionality.