I had setup word to not compress image sizes in a document.
In that way I can keep a number of screenshots for later use in it.
However, when I select an image in a document and copies it, pasting it into gimp will not give me the original amount of pixels of the image.
Why? How to fix?
Right clicking the image in word and "save as picture" will produce an image file with the original amount of pixels, but that would be a hassle.
How To Extract Embedded Images from a Word Document
Word documents containing embedded images can not be easily extracted. Attempts to copy and paste the images result in poor quality images or the document contains too many images to copy them individually. To extract embedded images from a Word document save the document as a web page using the following steps:
- On the File menu click Save as Web Page
- In the Save As drop down select Web Page (*.htm; *.html) Images will be extracted from the document and placed in the folder named
<DocumentName>_filesin the same location as the saved web page.
Source WD: How To Extract Embedded Images from a Word Document
Make a copy of the file, change the extention to .zip and unzip it. You will get a bunch of XML files and directories. Find one called media, the images should be in it.
One downside to this method is that they won't have any descriptive name, only being sequentially numbered.
