Importing Images from WhatsApp to MaraDocs

Easy Import of Images from WhatsApp (Desktop Version)

We know the drill: Clients send images instead of proper scans, preferably directly via WhatsApp. Many lawyers use WhatsApp as a quick communication channel with their clients. But until now, continuing to work with these documents in the law firm was very time-consuming: How do the images get from the phone into the law firm software?

Update October 2025

We have developed a free browser extension for WhatsApp Web that allows you to import images from WhatsApp Web directly into MaraDocs. Check out our blog article: ⬇️ Easy Image Exporter for WhatsApp Web: MaraDocs Browser Extension

The Solution for Your Law Firm: MaraDocs

MaraDocs Creates Optimized PDFs from Client Images

The photographed documents you receive from your clients are often crooked, with margins, shadows, or even multiple pages in one image. MaraDocs creates optimized PDFs from them that look like perfect scans and whose text is searchable and selectable. This way you get optimized PDFs in no time that you can use directly in your law firm software.

Working with these documents becomes much easier: The documents are more readable, they are searchable and selectable thanks to advanced text recognition, and MaraDocs ensures that file size is minimized: So you can also easily forward your clients' documents via email.

How to Import Images from WhatsApp via Drag & Drop to MaraDocs

To do this, you need to install the so-called desktop version of WhatsApp. You can find it in the Windows App Store (or also in the Apple App Store if you use a Mac).

Downloads of the WhatsApp Desktop Version:

• Windows App Store: WhatsApp for Windows in the Windows App Store
• Apple App Store: WhatsApp for Mac in the Apple App Store

After installation, you can connect to your WhatsApp account via a QR code through your phone. There you will then find all WhatsApp messages that you have received on your phone, also in the app.

More information: WhatsApp Desktop Guide

How Easy the Import via Drag & Drop from WhatsApp Is

The desktop version of WhatsApp supports drag & drop: This allows you to simply drag images individually with the mouse from the WhatsApp app into a MaraDocs browser window. MaraDocs then analyzes the images as usual and creates clean PDFs that you can conveniently use in your law firm after downloading.

The following video shows the simple workflow for importing images from WhatsApp via drag & drop.

Video Tutorial for Import via Drag & Drop from WhatsApp:

MaraDocs Does Not Access Your WhatsApp Messages

It is important for us to emphasize that MaraDocs does not gain access to your WhatsApp messages. MaraDocs can only read the data that you actively drag & drop from WhatsApp into the MaraDocs browser window. At no point does MaraDocs access your WhatsApp messages.

MaraDocs Creates Optimized PDFs from Client Documents

If you receive images instead of PDFs from clients, you no longer need to convert them manually. MaraDocs handles the complete process – fast, reliable, and without quality loss.

• Simply import entire emails
• all images are automatically analyzed
• as a result, you receive optimized PDFs

MaraDocs - as if the client had used a scanner app.

🚀 Try it now: Try MaraDocs for free

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