Convert Word to plain text. Locally, nothing uploaded
Plain text is useful when a form mangles Word formatting or another program needs the document’s raw content. This page uses mammoth to extract text from a .docx while removing fonts, colors, and layout. Paragraph breaks are preserved for readability. The document is read locally in your browser, which keeps confidential letters and reports on your device.
How it works
- Drop your .docx files below.
- All formatting is stripped, leaving the readable text.
- Download the .txt files.
Frequently asked questions
What exactly is kept?
The output keeps the readable text and paragraph breaks. Plain text cannot represent fonts, sizes, colors, alignment, headers, or footers, so those are removed. The remaining words appear in reading order.
Why convert to plain text at all?
To get clean, formatting-free content: pasting into systems that choke on rich text, feeding text to scripts or other tools, or reducing a document to just its words. It is the most portable form text can take.
Is my document uploaded?
No. The extraction runs in your browser via mammoth, so the file stays on your device. Confidential documents are read locally and never transmitted.
Do tables and lists survive?
Their text does, laid out linearly. List items and table cell contents appear as text, but without the visual table grid or bullet markers, because plain text has no way to draw them. For structure, use the Word to Markdown tool instead.