The Text Recovery converter is a rather obscure feature in Word, and one that most people have never heard of, much less know how to use.

Learn how to convert an image into editable text using Microsoft Word. Follow this step-by-step guide to easily extract text from images for editing.

2] Use the “Recover Text from Any File” converter Word offers a recovery tool to extract or recover text from any file. While it will result in formatting loss, images, and drawing objects, it ...

In the case of Microsoft Word, its primary file extension is .docx, and it knows how to open and read properly formatted .docx files.

How to open other text formats in Word Notice how many file formats Word can open with its (hidden) built-in conversion utility.