Convert Word to TXT

Turn a Word document into a plain text file — just the words, no formatting.

How it works

Drag and drop your Word (.docx or .doc) file below.
Click Convert to download as a plain text file.

What this tool does to your file

The document’s text is extracted and written as UTF-8 plain text — the words, with all formatting dropped. Line endings are CRLF rather than bare newlines, because a file converted from Word is overwhelmingly likely to be opened on Windows, where the tools that still run a whole document together on one line are exactly the ones a .txt gets handed to; every reader that prefers Unix line endings tolerates CRLF anyway. No byte-order mark is written: the editors a text file actually lands in all detect UTF-8 without one, and a BOM they do not need shows up as stray visible characters at the top of the file. Paragraph breaks survive as blank lines. Tables, images, headers, footers, comments and tracked changes do not — a table becomes its cell contents run together. Accepts .docx and legacy .doc.

What happens to your files

No account needed — Every tool works as a guest. Signing in raises the limits and keeps your files together, but nothing asks you to register before you get a result.
It runs in your browser — There is nothing to install and nothing to keep up to date. Files travel to our servers over an encrypted connection, and come back the same way.
Your files stay yours — Files and results stay in your account until you delete them. Files from a guest session that is never linked to an account are removed automatically after a period of inactivity.
Size limits, stated up front — Up to 10 MB per file as a guest, and up to 25 MB signed in. You see the limit before you upload, not after.

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