EZPZ FilePull the body text out of a Word document, for checking the contents without Word, or moving the text somewhere else.
No upload
Drop your files here
Files are opened inside this browser only. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Word 2007 and later (.docx) is supported.
Plain text to just read it; Markdown to move it into a blog or a document tool.
The result appears below, and the copy button puts it on your clipboard.
Plain text drops all formatting and keeps only the words. Lightest for skimming or searching.
Markdown carries headings, bold, italic, lists and links across as symbols. Convenient when moving into Notion, GitHub or a static blog, because the structure survives.
HTML carries the Word structure across as tags. Use it to paste into a web page or to process further with another tool.
Body text and basic formatting transfer well. Headers, footers and comments are always dropped, and shapes, equations and complex table formatting either do not survive or are dropped.
Images and footnotes depend on the format. Plain text drops both. Markdown and HTML collect the footnotes at the end and embed the images inside the output file, so a document with many pictures can give a large file. This tool is built for checking contents and moving text, so it does not reproduce how the document looks.
Not supported. The old .doc is a completely different structure. Re-save it as .docx in Word or a free viewer first.
If the content is entirely images or shapes, there is no text to pull out. Those documents need OCR.
In plain text the cells run together with line breaks; in HTML the table structure survives. Pick HTML if the table matters.
No. The DOCX parser runs inside your browser, so internal documents are fine to drop in.
Two situations: you have a .docx and no Word, or Word refuses the file with "Word found unreadable content". Below are the free programs that open it, what each asks of you, and how to get the text out of a file none of them will open.
A .jtd attachment arrives from Japan and nothing on your computer will open it. The file comes from Ichitaro, a Japanese word processor.
You export a student or customer list as CSV, open it again, and every Hindi or Tamil name has become question marks or junk, and the ₹ sign has turned into symbols. The numbers are fine. Only the text broke.