DOCX to TXT — Extract Plain Text from Word Documents

Get Just the Words

Sometimes you need the text from a Word document without any formatting — for processing scripts, search indexing, data analysis, or pasting into another application without style conflicts.

How to Convert

Step 1: Upload Your DOCX

Open MyPDF's DOCX to TXT converter and upload your Word file.

Step 2: Extract Text

All text content is extracted. Formatting, images, tables, headers, and footers are stripped.

Step 3: Download

Download the clean TXT file.

What's Preserved vs Stripped

Preserved	Stripped
All text content	Bold, italic, colors, fonts
Paragraph breaks	Images and graphics
List items (as text)	Table layout (content kept)
Headings (as text)	Headers and footers

Use Cases

• Data processing — feed clean text into scripts or databases
• Word count — get accurate counts without formatting overhead
• Translation — submit raw text to translation services
• Plagiarism check — submit to Turnitin or similar tools
• NLP/AI input — clean text for language model processing
• Email body — paste text without Word formatting artifacts

Tips

1. Tables become tab-separated — table content is preserved as tab-delimited text
2. Encoding is UTF-8 — supports all international characters
3. Headers/footers excluded — only body text is extracted by default

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