DOCX to Text Converter

How to use

1. 1Drop a .docx, .docm, or .dotx file onto the upload area or click Choose file. Up to 100 MB is supported.
2. 2Tick the parts you want to extract: Main document is on by default, plus Footnotes and Endnotes. Toggle Headers and Footers if your file uses them for real content.
3. 3Pick a paragraph spacing style: Blank line keeps paragraphs visually separated, Single newline is more compact.
4. 4Read the word, character, paragraph, and table counts, and review the per-part breakdown when you have selected more than one part.
5. 5Use Copy all text to put the result on your clipboard, or Download .txt to save the extracted text as a UTF-8 file named after the source document.

About this tool

DOCX to Text Converter pulls the readable text out of a Microsoft Word .docx, .docm, or .dotx file without uploading it. A modern Word document is an Office Open XML (ECMA-376) package: a ZIP archive whose body lives in word/document.xml, with separate parts for each header, footer, footnotes, and endnotes. The tool reads the file with File.arrayBuffer(), walks the ZIP central directory to locate every relevant XML part, decompresses each Deflate-compressed entry natively in the browser using DecompressionStream("deflate-raw"), parses the XML with DOMParser, and walks the OOXML tree to emit plain text. It honours the structural markers Word uses on the page: w:p paragraphs become real paragraph breaks (single newline or blank line, your choice), w:tab marks become tab characters, w:br becomes a line break, w:sym becomes the requested Unicode codepoint, and w:tbl, w:tr, w:tc render tables as tab-separated rows so the layout survives a paste into a spreadsheet. Headers, footers, footnotes, and endnotes are toggleable; the defaults include the main body, footnotes, and endnotes (because those usually contain real content) and leave headers and footers off (because those are usually repeated boilerplate). Every result panel shows the word count, the character count, the paragraph count, and the table count, plus a per-part breakdown when more than one part is selected. The output is plain UTF-8 text you can copy to your clipboard or download as a .txt file. Useful for stripping formatting from a Word draft, lifting a contract or transcript into another tool, building a quick word count when you do not have Word installed, opening a .docx without Microsoft Office on a Mac, Chromebook, Linux box, or any tablet, comparing two versions of a document by extracting the text first and pasting into a diff tool, and any other place where you need the words but not the styling. The tool deliberately skips a few things: legacy .doc files (Word 97 to 2003) use a different binary format and are detected so you can re-save them as .docx, password-protected DOCX files are wrapped in an OLE Compound File and are detected and flagged, embedded images are not rasterised, and visual formatting (bold, italics, fonts, colors) is dropped because the goal is plain text. Bytes never leave the browser tab. That makes it safe for contracts, medical records, school forms, signed agreements, resumes, transcripts, internal memos, and anything else you would rather not hand to a third-party SaaS.

Free to use. Works in your browser. No signup, no login.