DOCX to text

Extract the plain text from a Word document without uploading it.

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How to use it

Choose a .docx file.
Select Run.
Copy the text or download it as a .txt file.

Handy for

Copying text from reports and contracts, and preparing text for other tools.

Good to know

Text in headers, footers and text boxes may not appear. Tables are flattened into lines of text.

Privacy: where the work happens

Everything you enter or choose is processed by JavaScript in your browser and never sent anywhere. Only the page code, and any library this tool needs, is downloaded from cdnjs or jsDelivr.

Questions

Does it keep formatting?

No. You get plain text with paragraph breaks, without fonts, tables or images.

Does it open old .doc files?

No. Only the newer .docx format is supported.