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What's new · October 2026

Word downloads now keep real paragraphs

The Microsoft Word download now joins scanned lines into paragraphs that reflow like a typed document.

Paragraphs, not a line break on every line

The Word file used to end every line of the scan with a hard break. Edit a sentence and you got ragged lines. Now the lines are joined into paragraphs that reflow in Word, like a typed document. It works for books, articles and letters, and for right-to-left languages like Arabic, Persian and Urdu.

The scanned typewritten letter
A typewritten letterView the full scan
The Word page before: every line of the letter ends with a hard break, so the lines are short and ragged.
The scanned French book page
A French book pageView the full scan
The Word page before: every printed line of the book page ends with a hard break, so the lines are short and ragged.

Your text does not change

Hyphens stay exactly as printed. Every character matches the text on the results page. Only the line breaks are different.

What stays the same

  • Tables, forms and short lines

    Tables, forms and lists of short lines keep their lines.

  • Text you edited or selected

    Text you edited or selected on the results page keeps its lines.

  • .txt and searchable PDF

    These downloads are unchanged.

Where you will see it

  • The Microsoft Word download for images and PDFs

Try it with your own document

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