TXT to JPEG Converter

What happens when you convert TXT to JPEG

• The TXT is opened by LibreOffice, the open-source office suite, on our conversion server, laid out exactly as it would print, and each page is then drawn as an image by MuPDF at 150 dpi, the resolution most documents are printed at.
• A one-page TXT gives a single JPEG; a longer one comes back as a ZIP file with one JPEG per page, named page-01.jpeg, page-02.jpeg and so on, for up to 100 pages.
• At 150 dpi, an A4 page becomes about 1240 by 1750 pixels. The longest side is capped at 6,000 pixels.
• The JPEG files are saved at 92 percent quality, which keeps text readable while staying far smaller than PNG.
• The text is set in the default font of a new document, one paragraph per line, on A4 pages.
• Where the file uses a font our server does not have, a metric-compatible one is used instead: Carlito for Calibri, Caladea for Cambria and Liberation fonts for Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New, so lines break where they did. Unusual or decorative fonts may look different.
• This conversion runs on our server: the file is uploaded, converted, and deleted together with the result as soon as the result has been sent back to you. Nothing is kept. Files up to 25 MB are accepted.

How to convert TXT to JPEG online

1. Press "Choose TXT files" and select one or more files, or drag them onto the box. Files up to 25 MB each can be converted.
2. There are no settings to choose: the converter keeps everything the target format can hold.
3. Press "Convert to JPEG". The file is uploaded to our conversion server, converted in a few seconds, and deleted together with the result as soon as the result is sent back.
4. Save each JPEG with its download button. Our server has already deleted both your TXT and the JPEG by then.

Why convert TXT to JPEG?

TXT files usually come from notes, logs, extracted text and anything that must open everywhere. People convert them to JPEG to share a page as a picture: in a chat or a social post, on a website, in a presentation, or in an upload form that only accepts images. JPEG opens on every phone and computer without an office program.

How to convert TXT to JPEG on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android

On Windows

Open this page in Chrome, Edge or Firefox, drag your TXT files in from File Explorer, and press Convert. Each JPEG is saved to your Downloads folder.

On a Mac

Safari, Chrome and Firefox all work. Drag the TXT files from Finder onto the drop zone and the JPEG files land in Downloads.

On iPhone and iPad

Open the page in Safari and tap Choose TXT files. You can pick from Photos or from the Files app. The converted JPEG appears in Files, in the Downloads folder; to put it in your photo library, open it there, tap Share and choose Save Image.

On Android

Open the page in Chrome, tap Choose TXT files and pick them from Files or your gallery. The JPEG is saved to the Download folder, where any file manager can find it.

Best settings for TXT to JPEG

There are no settings: every page is rendered at 150 dpi, the longest side is capped at 6,000 pixels, and at most the first 100 pages are converted.

To get one page only, save just that page as its own file first, or pick the image you want out of the ZIP. For a document you will print or send, PDF keeps the text sharp at any size and selectable.

TXT vs JPEG: the differences

About TXT and JPEG files

What is a TXT file?

A TXT file holds nothing but characters: no fonts, images or layout. Modern text files are usually UTF-8, which covers every language.

What is a JPEG file?

JPEG and JPG are the same format. The three-letter extension dates from old Windows systems that only allowed three characters after the dot, and both names are still in use.

TXT to JPEG not working? Common problems

• "Files up to 25 MB can be converted." Server conversions have a size limit. Compress the images inside the file, or split it, and try again.
• "The conversion took too long and was stopped." Very long or complex files can pass the 90 second limit. Split the file and convert the parts.
• "This file is not really in TXT format." The converter checks every file before it runs anything, so a file of another format renamed to .txt is refused. Choose the page for its real format.

Convert TXT to JPEG from the command line

LibreOffice and Poppler do the same on your own computer: the first command makes a PDF, the second writes one image per page.

soffice --headless --convert-to pdf input.txt
pdftoppm -r 150 -jpeg -jpegopt quality=92 input.pdf page

Converting on your own computer keeps the file entirely local, which is worth it for very large or very sensitive documents. For everything else, the converter on this page does it without installing anything.