Extract text from Office
An Office document is an archive of XML files: the text is in there, and reading it needs neither Office nor an online service. Here it is pulled out inside your browser and comes back as a plain text file.
Your file stays on your device: nothing is uploaded
How it works
The file is opened as an archive and the parts that carry text are read. From Word come the paragraphs in the order they sit in, with tables rendered as columns separated by tabs; from Excel each sheet with its name, row by row; from PowerPoint the slides numbered — and in presentation order, which is not the order of the file names: reordering slides does not rename them, so taking them alphabetically would give you a shuffled deck. Three things do not come out, and they are choices: field codes (the ones that produce a page number or a table of contents), text that tracked changes have deleted — which the file keeps but the document no longer says — and the backup copy Word writes for every text box, which would otherwise make that text appear twice. In spreadsheets a date is stored as a number and is rewritten in readable form; other formats — currencies, percentages, thousand separators — come out as the stored value, not as you see them on screen. The old binary formats — .doc, .xls, .ppt, the ones from before 2007 — cannot be read: they are built differently. We accept them anyway so we can tell you what to do, which is to open them and save them again with “Save as”.
Your files are never uploaded. Anywhere.
Not to a server of ours, not to a third party, never. When you pick a file it stays in your browser’s memory: it is read, processed and written back on your device, and you save the result yourself. There is no path that takes it elsewhere, because there is no server to send it to.
- Processed locallyFormats are handled by WebAssembly code running in your browser, not by a remote service.
- Nothing to upload, nothing to wait forOther services send your file to a server and then send it back to you. Here the file never leaves: there is no upload to wait for.
- No accountNo sign-up, no email, no daily limits to get around by paying.
- No files to deleteOthers promise to erase your files after an hour. We have nothing to erase: they never reached us.