How to extract picture element from Word document?

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Robert said:
I have several MS-word documents, each containing a single picture
element, for example:
<http://www.rawbw.com/~rem/NewPub/LizS.doc>

What's the easiest way to extract the picture element as a
standalone jpeg image file?
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Try saving the Word document as a webpage.
This should create a folder with the same name
as the document...in the folder you should find the
image files. The following article offers some
instructions:

Extract images from a Word document
http://tinyurl.com/ydsy7m


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Open the file (LizS.doc) and then click save file as a web page, once you
specify where you want it saved it will create a LizS_files folder along
with the LizS.htm file, You're picture will be in the LizS_files folder,
just don't forget where you saved it.

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From: "Drinkenstein said:
Open the file (LizS.doc) and then click save file as a web page,
once you specify where you want it saved it will create a
LizS_files folder along with the LizS.htm file
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Aha, I didn't know that MS-Office-Word had that capability.
I tried it in the computer lab this afternoon, and indeed it
worked, thanks for the suggestion.
One thing confuses me slightly: In the folder it produced two
different copies of the JPEG file, one nearly as large as
the entire MS-Word document it came from, and the other much
smaller. Viewing them, I couldn't see any perceptable difference.
My guess is that the large JPEG file is full resolution exactly
as it was embedded in the MS-Word document, while the smaller
file was compressed optimally (as small as possible without
significant visual degradation). Is that guess correct?

For anyone joining this thread later, I'll be deleting the online
MS-Word document because it's so large and I needed it only to
show you what I was asking about, so if you click on the URL
and there's no such file, that's why.
 
Another way of doing it is to right click inside the picture and then click
on Copy on the opening menu.
You then open any photo editing software (use the free Paint supplied by XP
if you don't have anything else) and click on Edit and Paste. The photo will
open and then you simply Save as and select JPG for file type.
 
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