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DOC to DOCX
Recovers text and tables from an old .doc into a clean .docx. It also reads RTF files and web pages disguised as Word. All in the browser.
Free, in the browser, no account
Or drop it here. One file at a time, all in your browser.
Recovers text and tables into a clean docx. Complex layouts, images and macros do not come through. Pixel-faithful conversion needs Word or LibreOffice.
Text and tables come out of a binary .doc. Bold and italic are recovered only from RTF files and web pages.
The file never leaves this page: no upload, no server, nothing saved.
The same work, elsewhere
How it works
- Drop the document, or pick it with the selector.
- Read what was detected and check the extracted text.
- Download the .docx.
What it does
It recovers text and tables from a document in Word’s old binary format and writes them into a
clean .docx. It also reads the two files that only resemble a .doc by name — RTF files and
web pages saved by Word — and from those it recovers bold and italic too.
The promise, in full
It recovers text and tables into a clean docx. Complex layouts, images and macros do not come through. Pixel-faithful conversion needs Word or LibreOffice.
It is written above the button as well, because that is the thing to know before converting, not after opening the result.
The format is read from the bytes, not the extension
A file called .doc is often an RTF — that is what programs that “export to Word” without
having Word produce — or an HTML page, if somebody used “save as web page”. They open in Word,
which is what convinces people they are Word documents.
This tool looks at the first bytes and says what it found before converting. From RTF files and web
pages it recovers the shape of the text as well; from a real binary .doc it recovers text and
tables, and nothing more.
Why bold does not come out of the binary format
In a real .doc the text and its formatting live in two different places: the text in a piece
table, the character properties in a separate structure, inside property pages indexed by position.
It is a second format inside the first.
Promising it halfway would be worse than not promising it: a document where bold shows up in three places out of ten is harder to fix than one where it does not show up at all.
What it does not do
It is not a faithful conversion. Margins, columns, headers, footers, styles, numbered lists, section breaks and text boxes do not come through. The content comes out, not the layout. If the document matters because of how it is laid out, that needs Word or LibreOffice.
Images and macros do not come through. The first are embedded objects in formats that would each need decoding; the second are code, and this tool neither runs them nor carries them across.
Password-protected documents do not open, and neither do Word 6.0 or 95 files: they have a different header structure, outside what this page promises. In both cases it says which of the two it is, rather than handing back an empty file.
A document that yields not a single word is rejected. A valid, empty .docx is the worst defect
in this category, because it looks like it worked.
About your data
Nothing leaves this page and nothing is saved.
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