styleLatex: Turn PDFs, Images, Handwriting and Word into LaTeX That Compiles

Product overview

styleLatex is an online LaTeX converter aimed at students, researchers and teachers. Its own framing is simple: PDF, photo, handwriting or Word in; compiled LaTeX out. The important distinction is that conversion does not stop at recognition. Every page it writes is run through XeLaTeX, the real error log is read when something breaks, and the page is sent back for repair for up to two rounds. What you open is therefore source that has already compiled, not a first draft you have to debug yourself. Inputs include PDF, PNG, JPG, WebP and Word (.docx), plus Excel (.xlsx) and CSV for table conversion, and screenshots can be pasted with Ctrl+V. PDFs show thumbnails of up to 100 pages so you can pick only the pages you need, while Word files are read in the browser and split into parts of 6,000 characters, each charged like a page. Equations, tables and figures are meant to come back in place: math is written with amsmath, and tables come back as tabular code with booktabs rules and multirow cells. After conversion, each result opens with the LaTeX source beside a PDF preview, so you can compare a table or matrix against the original, edit the code, press Compile to check the change, and then export. Export options are a .tex file, the compiled PDF, a Word copy, or a .zip containing cropped figures; the site says up to eight figures are cropped per page and referenced from the source where they appeared. Every result is kept in your history so you can reopen, edit and download again. On accuracy, the official page is candid: clean printed pages convert most reliably, and handwriting depends on how neat it is. The vision model is instructed to transcribe exactly and never to solve, correct or summarise the page, and anything it cannot read with certainty is marked [unreadable] in bold rather than invented. Uploaded page images and documents are held in memory only while the job runs and dropped when it ends; the returned LaTeX is saved to your history. Charging is by credit: one credit per page, or per 6,000-character part of a Word file, with failed pages refunded automatically. Free accounts convert up to 5 pages at a time, Starter up to 10 and Pro up to 20. Excel to LaTeX and LaTeX to Word use no credits, and the Markdown, HTML and Typst tools need no account. Companion pages cover LaTeX to Word, equation to LaTeX, image to LaTeX and table to LaTeX. Pricing and limits quoted here come from the official site and may change, so confirm before purchasing.

Core features

• Every page is compiled with XeLaTeX and repaired from the real error log, up to two rounds
• Accepts PDF, PNG, JPG, WebP and Word (.docx); screenshots can be pasted with Ctrl+V
• PDF thumbnails for up to 100 pages let you convert only the pages you need
• Math written with amsmath; tables returned as tabular code with booktabs rules and multirow cells
• Figures cropped automatically, up to eight per page, referenced in place and bundled in a .zip
• Side-by-side source and PDF preview with a Compile button to verify edits
• Export .tex, compiled PDF, Word copy or a figure ZIP; results saved to history
• Uncertain characters marked [unreadable] in bold instead of being invented

Use cases

• Students converting lecture PDFs or photos of problem sheets into editable LaTeX for assignments and notes
• Researchers turning a co-author's Word manuscript or scanned pages into LaTeX for journal submission
• Teachers tidying handwritten notes or whiteboard photos into handouts with equations and theorem environments
• Quickly producing booktabs-style LaTeX tables from Excel or CSV data
• Converting LaTeX source to Word when a journal office or collaborator asks for a .docx
• Turning LaTeX into Markdown, HTML or Typst for web publishing or other typesetting pipelines

How to use

• Open the styleLatex converter, drop in a PDF, image or .docx, or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V
• For a PDF, tick the pages you want from the thumbnails (up to 100 shown)
• Start the conversion and watch the progress bar; each page is compiled and repaired if it fails
• Compare the source against the PDF preview, check equations, tables and figures, edit if needed and press Compile
• Export the .tex file, the compiled PDF, a Word copy, or download the .zip with cropped figures
• Reopen any result later from your history to edit and download again

Pricing

The official pricing page lists Starter at $8/month with 200 pages a month and up to 10 pages per conversion, and Pro at $16/month with 500 pages a month and up to 20 pages per conversion. Plans are billed monthly or yearly, renew automatically until cancelled, can be cancelled anytime in Settings → Billing, and unused purchases can be refunded within 7 days. Page conversions cost one credit per page, failed pages are refunded, and free accounts convert up to 5 pages at a time. Excel to LaTeX and LaTeX to Word use no credits. These figures come from the official site and may change; this page has not independently verified billing or checkout behaviour.

Pros

• Output is compiled and repaired before you see it, reducing manual debugging
• Side-by-side source and PDF preview makes checking equations and tables practical
• Unreadable characters are flagged rather than fabricated
• Broad input coverage plus companion reverse-conversion tools
• Uploaded files are held in memory only during the job

Limitations

• Page conversions are credit-based and the free allowance is limited to 5 pages at a time
• Handwriting accuracy depends on neatness and photo conditions
• Word conversion does not read footnotes yet, so they must be copied by hand
• LaTeX to Word converts only the body; custom macros, the title block and images are left out
• Excel to LaTeX does not preserve merged cells

FAQ

Sources

LaTeX Converter — PDF, Images and Word to LaTeX | styleLatex Fetched 2026-11-09

Pricing Fetched 2026-11-09