Word to Plain Text Converter
Get clean text content from DOCX without formatting.
- DOCX
- up to 200 MB per file
- Never uploaded
How it works
- 01
Upload Word file
Choose the .docx; it is never uploaded.
- 02
Extract text
DocsBolt pulls out all paragraphs and tables.
- 03
Download
Get a UTF-8 .txt with paragraphs in order and tables as tab-separated rows.
What Word to TXT does
Strip a Word document down to plain text. Formatting disappears and only the words remain, which is exactly what you want when the content is going into a system that chokes on markup — a code repository, a database field, a script, or a plain-text email where pasted Word content otherwise arrives full of stray styling.
The .docx is unzipped in your browser and its word/document.xml is walked in order: paragraph by paragraph, and inside tables row by row, so the text comes out in the sequence it appears on the page rather than in the sequence Word stored it. Each paragraph becomes one line; table rows become one line each with cells separated by a tab, which pastes cleanly into a spreadsheet.
Tracked changes are exported as the accepted text (insertions kept, deletions dropped). Hyperlinks lose their address and keep their visible text. Automatic numbering is not part of the text in a .docx — it is generated by Word from the list definition — so numbered lists come out without their numbers. Older .doc files are not the same format and are not accepted.
When you'd use it
- Pasting a document into a system that only accepts plain text
- Counting words or grepping a document from the command line
- Feeding a document into a script without Word's formatting
Formats and limits
- Accepts
- .docx
- Produces
- TXT
- Files per run
- One
- Size limit
- 200 MB per file
Limitations
- Tables are written as rows with cells separated by tabs so they stay readable; merged cells and nested tables are flattened.
- Headers, footers, footnotes and text boxes are not part of the main flow and are omitted.
- Images are dropped — plain text has nowhere to put them.
What happens to your file
Your file is never uploaded or stored.
Full detail in the Privacy Policy.
Questions
Does this include tables?
Yes, table content is extracted as pipe-separated text.
What exactly is lost?
Fonts, colours, headings, images, tables as tables, and page layout. Paragraph text survives; a table's contents come through as lines of text without the grid.
Why would I want to lose the formatting?
Because plain text is universal and never carries hidden styling. Pasting from Word into a web form or code editor often drags along invisible markup that causes odd spacing later.
Will the paragraph breaks be kept?
Yes, paragraph structure and line breaks are preserved so the text stays readable rather than collapsing into one block.
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