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Convert LaTeX to PNG Online

Paste a LaTeX table below, edit it if you need to, and get PNG back. The conversion runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded, there is no size limit and there is no signup.

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What LaTeX is

A LaTeX table is a tabular environment: a column specification, ampersands between cells and double backslashes at the end of each row.

Academic papers, theses and anything typeset with LaTeX or written in Overleaf.

What PNG is

A lossless image format. Text and thin lines stay exactly as drawn, which is what a table is made of.

Slides, chat messages, issue trackers, and anywhere a table has to travel as a picture rather than as data.

What changes when you convert LaTeX to PNG

The tabular body is read, rules are dropped, and escaped characters are unescaped. Text wrapped in textbf or emph is reduced to the text itself.

The table is drawn from the data onto a canvas rather than captured from the page, so the whole thing comes out however long it is and however much of it is on screen. Column widths are measured from the content, alternating rows are shaded, and the scale is adjustable so a table for a slide or a print layout can be drawn at two or three times the size.

What carries over from LaTeX to PNG

LaTeX records 2 things about a table that PNG has no way to hold.

LaTeX can hold a value that is itself a list or an object. PNG has only flat cells, so nested values are flattened into one cell rather than being spread across columns.

Nothing in PNG records that the first row is a header. It is drawn at the top and looks like one, which is all that is left of the distinction.

Questions

How do I convert LaTeX to PNG?

Paste your LaTeX into the box above or drop the file onto it. Check the table in the grid, then copy or download the PNG from the output panel. It takes one step and the data never leaves your browser.

Why does my table not compile?

The usual cause is a missing package. Booktabs rules need \usepackage{booktabs} in the preamble. Switch the rules option off and the output uses plain \hline instead, which needs nothing.

Can I get the data back out of a PNG of a table?

Not without optical character recognition, which is a different kind of software with a different failure rate. An image of a table is pixels. If anyone downstream might want to sort or sum the numbers, send the table as well as the picture.

Can I convert the PNG back to LaTeX afterwards?

Not mechanically. PNG keeps how the table looks, not what it held, so going back means reading the values off the page again. Keep the LaTeX if you will need it.

What happens to nested values?

PNG has no nested cell, so a list or object inside a LaTeX value is flattened into a single cell rather than expanded into extra columns. Split it before converting if the parts need to be separate.

Is there a limit on file size?

No. The work happens on your own machine, so the limit is your machine's memory rather than an upload cap. A file with tens of thousands of rows converts in a second or two.

Is my data uploaded anywhere?

No. The parsing and generating are done by JavaScript running on this page. You can watch the network tab while you convert and see that nothing is sent.

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