DOCX to TXT
How to use
Strips all formatting, styles and images from a Word document and leaves just the plain text. Upload your DOCX file and download or copy the clean text output.
Select a Word document to extract plain text
All styling is stripped, paragraph breaks are kept
- Getting a quick word or character count from a Word document without opening Word
- Feeding document content into another app or script that only accepts plain text
- Stripping formatting before pasting content into a plain-text field or form
- Archiving the text content of a document separately from its formatting
What is lost when a document becomes plain text, and why that is often the point
Extracting text from a .docx discards everything that made it a document: fonts, sizes, colours, alignment, page geometry, headers, footers and images. What survives is the character content of the body in reading order, with paragraph breaks preserved. For a large class of tasks that is precisely what you want: a word count that is not confused by hidden formatting, content for a system that accepts only text, a diff that reports what changed rather than how it was styled.
Tables are the case where the loss is real rather than incidental. A table is a two-dimensional structure and plain text is one-dimensional, so cell contents are flattened into lines and the relationship between columns is gone. If the table matters, convert to Markdown or HTML instead: both can represent rows and cells, and both are still readable as text. The same applies to nested lists, where indentation carried meaning that a flat extraction does not preserve.
Two details are worth knowing before relying on the output. Tracked changes are read as their accepted state: you get the text as it would appear if every revision were accepted, not the revision marks. And Word's smart punctuation comes through as it was stored: curly quotes, en and em dashes, ellipsis characters and non-breaking spaces are all real Unicode characters, not ASCII lookalikes, and they are the usual reason text extracted from Word breaks a downstream parser. The Remove Formatting tool converts them to ASCII equivalents when that matters.
Free and private. Everything runs on your own device, with no account and no uploads.
When you just need the words from a Word document without any formatting, this tool strips out styles, fonts, and layout to give you raw plain text. It is useful for feeding document content into another app, running a quick word count, or archiving text without the overhead of a binary Word file. The extraction happens locally in your browser rather than on a remote server.
Yes, paragraph and line breaks are preserved so the text remains readable, even though styling is removed.
Images are dropped since this is a plain text extraction; table cell text is typically flattened into readable lines.
This tool is built for the modern .docx XML format; legacy binary .doc files are not supported.
Yes, though very large files depend on your browser's available memory to process quickly.
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Upload your DOCX file
Select the Word document you want the plain text from.
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Automatic text extraction
The tool reads the document body and strips all formatting locally.
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Review the plain text
Scroll through the extracted text to confirm nothing important was lost.
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Copy or download as .txt
Use the copy button or download the plain text file.
- ·If you need to preserve table structure, extract to HTML or Markdown instead, this tool flattens tables into plain lines.
- ·Legacy .doc files must be re-saved as .docx in Word first, since this tool only reads the modern XML format.
- ·Use this before a word count or text-analysis tool that gets thrown off by hidden formatting characters.