Word to TXT Converter – Convert Word Online (Free Tool)
Extract text from Word documents (.docx) and save as plain text file.
Example Output
Headings stay on their own line, bullet/numbered lists are flattened to `- item` / `1. item`, tables become TSV rows. All formatting is stripped.
meeting-notes.txt — plain UTF-8, paragraphs separated by blank lines, lists kept as `- item`
What is Word to TXT Converter?
Extract every word from a .docx into a clean UTF-8 plain-text file — useful for grep-friendly archives, feeding LLMs, version control, or pasting into systems that reject formatted text. Lists, headings, and tables are preserved structurally even though all visual formatting is gone.
Why use this tool?
- Works offline after the first page load
- Lightweight page weight that loads quickly even on slow connections
- Works on desktop, tablet, and mobile in any modern browser
- Built on SheetJS / pdf.js / OOXML — the same libraries used by serious desktop tools
- Auto-detects encoding (UTF-8, Shift_JIS, GBK, Vietnamese) for CSV imports
How to use
- Upload your Word document (.docx)
- Click "Extract Text" button
- View the extracted text
- Download as TXT file
Examples
LLM context dump
A 40-page contract is reduced to a token-efficient plain-text file you can paste into ChatGPT or Claude without burning tokens on formatting noise.
Searchable archive
Convert hundreds of .docx files to .txt for fast `grep`/`ripgrep` searches across the entire archive.
Version-controlled writing
Storing drafts as .txt in git produces meaningful diffs — .docx is a zip of XML, so git diffs are useless.
Common use cases
- Preparing documents for LLM ingestion
- Building a searchable plain-text corpus
- Tracking writing drafts in version control
- Stripping tracked changes and comments before sharing
- Feeding text into command-line pipelines (awk, sed, grep)
Troubleshooting
- Vietnamese / CJK characters look broken
- Open the .txt in UTF-8 mode. Notepad on older Windows defaults to ANSI — switch to Notepad++ or VS Code, both auto-detect UTF-8.
- Tables flattened into one long line
- Toggle "tables as TSV" so each row becomes a tab-separated line. Default mode collapses cells with spaces; TSV is better for re-importing into Excel.
- Embedded images are gone
- That's expected — plain text holds no images. Use the Extract Images from Word tool if you need them separately.
Frequently Asked Questions
Plain text is universally readable, lightweight, and free of proprietary formatting — ideal for feeding documents into scripts, NLP pipelines, version control, or any system that does not need styling.
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