Convert MsWord first page to Image

Question

I have an msword document that consists of some pages, i need convert only the first page to image and save it. Each page can consist of images, tables, text, etc. But i can't use clipboard buffer or any commercial software.

May be anybody know some other ways ?

Answer 1

You can turn on the "Generate thumbnail for Document" option and word will generate an image for you (that Windows 7 uses to show the large icon view of the document.

In word 2010, click File-Info

then the Properties Drop down Then Advanced properties Then Summary tab and finally SHOW PREVIEW PICTURE

And what's worse, you can't automate it! Ugh, Something about a security risk.

When you do that, there will be an extra WMF file embedded within the DOCX that you can extract.

Answer 2

Print your first page to the Microsoft Office Document Image Writer.

It will give you a TIFF image.

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EDIT

Alternatively, print to the Microsoft XPS Document Writer and then convert XPS to an image.