Does DOCX to EPUB keep headings and pictures?
Yes. When you run DOCX to EPUB in ReadyEPUB, what comes out is headings, paragraphs and pictures. DOCX to EPUB keeps headings and pictures, plus the body split into paragraphs. Headings become chapter titles in the new EPUB and pictures go in in their original order. Comments, tracked changes, text boxes, headers and footers do not come along. The work happens in the browser you have open. Your book file is not uploaded to ReadyEPUB. There is no login, no registration, and no account server that receives books.
What you send to someone else is the file you download. The original DOCX is still in its folder unless you move or delete it yourself. This page takes one file at a time. A result you have not downloaded lives only in this visit. Refresh or close the page and it is gone. The sample on the page is a short passage made right here in this browser to try one conversion; it is not a book fetched from somewhere else. If the sample goes through PDF, it reads fonts from this site too.
DOCX to EPUB keeps headings, paragraphs and pictures. Comments, tracked changes, text boxes, headers and footers do not come across. What you download is a new file; the original stays where it was.
Headings become chapters, paragraphs stay separate
Headings in the Word file are taken as chapter titles and the body is split into paragraphs. Once it is an EPUB, those chapter titles travel on to other output formats, but each format keeps different things. PDF writes text page by page. PNG and JPG pictures whose width and height can be measured go into the new file; other pictures this browser can draw are drawn as PNG first, and any picture it cannot draw is skipped. HTML keeps headings and paragraphs; scripts and styles do not follow. Plain text keeps paragraphs, and a picture does not turn into a line of text. Markdown marks headings with symbols. FB2 uses its own chapter structure. These are all new files written locally by this browser.
If you later export that EPUB to PDF, this browser reads the fonts it needs from this site, based on the characters in the book, and writes them into the new PDF. What is read is a font, not your whole book sent away to be typeset. The book title, author and language code are also written into that new PDF. If the font does not come through on this attempt, the conversion fails and the page says it did not convert and asks you to try another file. Try a different file, or check that the page loads first.
What is read in is a font from this site. What is not uploaded is your book.
Where the file stays, and where the boundary is
How files are handled states the boundary: book files are not uploaded to ReadyEPUB, and there is no login here. Opening the page is the other thing that touches the network. This visit is counted by 51.LA; what is counted is a page being opened, not your DOCX and not the EPUB you just downloaded. The PDF export step reads a font from this site. Do not turn “the book is not uploaded” into “this computer never goes online”. The page has to load, a visit has to be counted, a font has to be read in. None of those hands the text of your book over.
You can edit the title, author and language code before converting. When a file is dropped in, the bibliographic details that can be read fill the fields you have not changed. A field you edited is not overwritten. The change lands on the copy you are about to download, not on the original in your folder. If the extension does not match, the page asks you to choose a DOCX file instead. This page takes one file at a time, not a batch. If there is no convertible body text, the page says this file has no convertible body text.
- One file at a time. Over 40 MB, the page says this browser cannot handle a file over 40 MB. That is not a server refusing you.
- Before you drop in a DOCX, check that the headings and pictures are the ones you mean to carry over.
- Download anything you want to keep before closing the page. After a refresh, an uncollected result is gone.
Do not credit DOCX with what other formats do
RTF keeps text only; pictures, headers, footers and footnotes are skipped. ODT takes headings, paragraphs and pictures, with headings by outline level, but styles, footnotes and the original layout are not promised. HTML and HTM are read the same way: scripts and styles are stripped, only web and mail links are kept, and relative links are dropped. In Markdown one hash is a first-level heading, two hashes a second, and three or more are folded into the third; a fenced code block becomes one paragraph. Those are other doors. They are not promises made by DOCX.
Going the other way, PDF to EPUB takes only text you can already select. If a scanned page is just a picture, its words cannot be extracted, and there is no recognition step. Complex layouts collapse into paragraphs, and columns, running heads and footnotes do not go back the way they were. Above 300 pages, the page says there are too many pages for this browser to handle in one go. There is no recognition on the DOCX side either: a picture stays a picture, no words are read out of it. Comments, tracked changes, text boxes, headers and footers are simply not taken.
Three things to check before you send it
Pause before downloading and check these three. Miss one and what you send may not be the file you meant.
- Are all the headings there, and did the paragraphs you need come across?
- Are the pictures you wanted present? Comments and tracked changes were never going to come along.
- Did you download everything you want before closing? A refresh drops the result you did not collect.
If you have not put a file in yet, go back to the converter page, drop in that DOCX, and open DOCX to EPUB. Check the headings and pictures, then download. One file at a time, and collect the result when it is done. Later pieces here will cover Markdown marks, the page order of a comic archive, and whether HTM and HTML take the same path.
What you send is the copy you downloaded. The other person gets a new file, not a copy sitting on ReadyEPUB, because ReadyEPUB has not kept your book. The original is still yours to look after. To convert again, open this page once more; the file still comes from your own folder.