Convert Word to Text

Convert Word documents to Text free, in your browser. No upload, no account, no watermark.

Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

Change the format. Drop an image, a PDF or a Word document.

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    Your files are processed by your own browser and never sent to a server. Open your browser's network tab and convert one, there is no upload to see.

    How to convert Word to Text

    1. Drop your Word files onto the box above, or paste them with Ctrl+V.
    2. Your browser does the work on your own machine.
    3. Save each file from its tile, or take them all at once.

    Word and Text side by side

    WordText
    Where it came from2007, when Office moved to an XML formatOlder than the web, and unchanged since
    Where it opensWord, Google Docs, LibreOffice and PagesEverything that can read a file at all
    Best atA document still being written, where the structure has to stay editableWords you want to search, script against, or keep for decades

    About Word

    A .docx describes a document rather than a page: this is a heading, this is a list. That is what makes it editable.

    Worth knowing: Only .docx is read. The older .doc format is a different, undocumented binary.

    About Text

    Just the words, in a .txt file. No fonts, no layout, nothing to go wrong.

    What survives and what does not

    The words survive, in order, with the paragraph breaks between them. Headings become ordinary lines and list items keep their bullet or number as literal characters, because a .txt file has no idea what a heading or a list is. Everything else goes: fonts, sizes, bold and italic, colours, tables, images, headers, footers and page numbers. None of that is text, so none of it can be in a text file.

    That is usually the reason to do it. Plain text is the format nothing can misread and nothing can quietly reformat, which makes it the right thing to paste into code, feed to a script, search with ordinary tools, or keep for a decade.

    Only .docx is read here. The older .doc is a different, undocumented binary format from a time when Microsoft did not publish one, and nothing in a browser can open it. Word itself will save a .doc as .docx in a few seconds, and then this works.

    Other conversions

    Word also converts to PDF.

    Text also comes from PDF.

    Other tools

    Last updated August 2026

    Privacy

    Your files are never uploaded

    Every conversion happens inside your browser, on your own device. No server receives your file, so there is nothing for anyone to store, sell, lose in a breach, or be compelled to hand over. You can check: open your browser’s Network tab and convert something, there is no upload. The site also keeps working with your connection switched off.

    We collect nothing about you

    There are no accounts, no sign-up and no contact form. We do not ask for your name or your email address, and there is no database here holding anything about you.

    What is stored on your device

    Only preferences, such as the output format you last chose. That stays in your browser, is readable only by this site, and is removed if you clear site data.

    Hosting

    The site is served by Cloudflare Pages, which processes the technical information every browser sends with a request, an IP address and user agent, to serve pages and block abuse. That applies to page requests only. Your files are never part of a request.

    Analytics and advertising

    There is no analytics. The site carries advertising from Google AdSense to cover the cost of the domain. Google may set cookies or read a device identifier to choose and measure those ads, and you can review or change what it does at myadcenter.google.com and policies.google.com/technologies/ads. Advertising can never see your files, because your files never leave your device: the ad is a separate part of the page with no access to what you convert.

    Your choice about advertising

    If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, you are asked before anything is stored on your device for advertising, and nothing is set until you answer. The message has three buttons and refusing is one of them, on the first screen, in one click, exactly like accepting. Refusing does not put the tools behind a wall and does not remove the advertising; it means the ads you see are chosen without a profile of you. You can change your answer whenever you like using the button at the end of this page, or by clearing this site’s data, which makes the message appear again. What Google does across all sites can be reviewed at myadcenter.google.com. None of this touches your files, which never leave your device to be seen by anyone, consenting or not.

    Getting in touch

    Write to leniv.tech@gmail.com. That address reaches one person. There is no support desk, no ticketing system and no newsletter to be added to, and your message is not stored anywhere other than that inbox.

    Terms

    Free to use

    For personal and commercial work alike, with no account and no watermark. Please do not try to disrupt the site or interfere with how it works for other people.

    Your files stay yours

    They never reach us, so we claim no rights over them and hold no copy of them.

    No warranty

    The tools are provided as they are. Conversion can fail on unusual or damaged files, and converting between formats can lose quality or detail, compressing a PDF, for instance, turns its text into part of an image. Keep your originals, and do not rely on this as the only copy of anything that matters. We are not liable for any loss arising from using the site.

    Changes

    These terms may change. The date above shows when they last did.