This tool converts Word (.docx) and OpenDocument (.odt) files into Markdown, HTML, or plain text. It is built for writers and developers who need a document’s text in a format they can paste into a README, a static-site post, or a plain-text editor.
How it works
Both .docx and .odt are zip archives full of XML. The converter reads the document’s structure (headings, paragraphs, bold and italic runs, links, lists, and simple tables) and rebuilds it as HTML. From that HTML it produces your chosen output: Markdown via a structure-aware conversion, the HTML itself, or plain text with all markup stripped. Microsoft Word, Google Docs, and LibreOffice all export .docx, so a file from any of them works the same way.
Example: a Word report to Markdown
Drop a report.docx containing a title, two section headings, a bulleted list, and a few bold phrases. Pick Markdown. The output is report.md: the title becomes a # heading, the sections become ## headings, the list becomes - bullets, and the bold phrases wrap in **. Copy it straight into a GitHub README or a Jekyll post. The result panel also shows the word, line, and character counts so you can sanity-check that nothing was lost.
When to use it
Use this when you are moving content out of a word processor into a code-friendly format: drafting documentation in Word and publishing it as Markdown, pulling a client’s .odt into a static site, or grabbing the plain text of a document for a script. If your source is a scanned page or a screenshot rather than a document file, the image OCR tool extracts text from images instead.
Common mistakes
- Expecting the layout to survive. This is a text-content converter, not a layout converter. The words, headings, lists, links, and tables come through; images, footnotes, page geometry, and visual design do not. When the converter has to simplify something, it tells you in the result panel.
- Uploading the wrong file type. Old .doc and Apple .pages files fail with a clear message. Resave them as .docx in Word or LibreOffice first.
- Treating Markdown as lossless. Coloured text, font choices, and deep nesting flatten to the nearest Markdown equivalent or vanish. When you need every styling detail, choose HTML output. The HTML is unindented source, so run it through the HTML formatter if you want it tidied.