maths photo → Word equations

Equation Image to Word

Convert a photo or screenshot of maths — a worksheet, a textbook page, a slide — into a Word document where every formula is a native Word equation you can click into and edit. It is free, and a single image needs no account. The sentences around the maths come through as ordinary paragraphs and headings, so the result reads like the page it came from, not like a list of formulas.

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How it works

01Snap the mathsPrinted maths works best: textbooks, exam papers, slides, screenshots of a PDF.
02Formulas are readEach formula is recognised as LaTeX, then converted into Word's own equation format.
03Edit in WordClick any equation to change it in Word's equation editor; the prose around it is plain text.

why this tool

Equation Image to Word, done right

Native Word equationsWritten in Office Math, the format Word's equation editor uses, so a fraction is a fraction and a root is a root — structure, not an image.

Display and inline mathsA formula on a line of its own is centred as a display equation; a symbol in the middle of a sentence stays inline in that sentence.

Prices are not mathsA line like “$5.00 shipping and $3 tax” stays text. A dollar sign on its own does not turn a sentence into an equation.

Never raw LaTeXIf a formula will not convert to a Word equation, it falls back to readable symbols in plain text — not a string of backslash commands.

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Word equations vs LaTeX vs a picture of the formula

A picture of the formula: Looks right, but you cannot change a coefficient, search for a variable, or have it reflow with the text, and it blurs when the page is scaled.
Raw LaTeX: Exact and portable if you write LaTeX. Pasted into Word, though, it is just a line of backslashes your reader has to decode.
A Word equation (what you get): Editable in the equation editor, typeset at any size, and part of the text — it moves with the paragraph and prints sharply.
Want LaTeX too?: The same conversion gives you Markdown with the LaTeX in it, so you do not have to choose.

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Which parts of a maths page come across

Fractions and roots: Rebuilt as real Word fraction and radical structures, with their numerators, denominators and radicands editable.
Powers and subscripts: Kept as true superscripts and subscripts, not raised or lowered characters.
Symbols: Greek letters, operators and signs like ∞ and · come across as maths symbols inside the equation.
Circled labels: Numbers in circles, as in ① ② ③, become the circled characters themselves rather than a number with a box drawn round it.
The text around it: Questions, headings and explanations stay ordinary Word text, in reading order, with the equations in their places.
Diagrams: Graphs and geometric figures are cropped from your photo and placed into the document as pictures — they are not redrawn.

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Converting maths to Word: formats and privacy

Input formats: JPG, PNG and WebP — in practice any still image your browser can decode, including a screenshot pasted straight from the clipboard.
Resolution: Large photos are downscaled in your browser, to a 2048-pixel long edge, before anything is sent. Shooting at your camera's maximum resolution costs upload time and buys nothing.
A whole problem set: Worksheets with many pages convert together once you are signed in (free): up to 20 photos, merged in order into one file with a page break between them.
Your image: It is deleted within 30 minutes of the conversion, and the job record within two hours. Nothing is kept to train a model.

faq

Frequently asked questions

Can I edit the equations after converting?

Yes. Click an equation in Microsoft Word and the equation editor opens on it, the same as if you had typed it with Insert › Equation. Change a number, add a term or restyle it.

Can I get the LaTeX instead of a Word file?

Yes. Copy or download the Markdown version of the result: every formula in it is LaTeX between dollar signs, ready to paste into Overleaf, Obsidian or a Jupyter notebook.

Does it read handwritten maths?

It is designed for printed maths. Handwritten working may come through, but superscripts and fractions are where handwriting is most often misread, so check every equation against the photo.

What if a formula comes out wrong?

The result is shown next to your image before you download, so compare the two. A misread symbol is quickest to fix inside Word's equation editor; a formula that could not be converted at all appears as readable plain text you can retype.

Will the equations open in Google Docs or Pages?

The file is a standard .docx and opens there, but other editors display Word equations in their own way, and how editable they stay varies. For editing the maths, Microsoft Word is the reliable choice.

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