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Same quality bar. Still free. Still no upload.
Your files never leave your device
Free to use, with no account, no usage limit and no watermark, because the work runs on your device rather than on our servers.
This is not a promise about how carefully we handle your upload. There is no upload. The file you choose is read into memory by your own browser, processed there, and handed back as a download — the tool has no server component and makes no network request with your data.
- Nothing is stored. We never receive the file, so there is no copy to retain, no retention period to disclose, and nothing to delete on request.
- Nothing is transmitted. No upload endpoint, no analytics payload carrying file contents, no third-party processor.
- You can verify it. Load this page, disconnect from the internet, and use the tool. It still works, because everything it needs is already on your machine.
- Nothing persists after you close the tab. Files are held in page memory only — not in local storage, not in a cache, not in a database.
A note on wording, because it matters: we do not describe these tools as “encrypted.” Encryption protects data that travels to somebody else's computer. Your file does not travel, so there is nothing to encrypt and nothing to intercept — which is a stronger guarantee than encryption, not a weaker one. The page itself is served over HTTPS like the rest of the site.
This makes the tools safe for material you are contractually barred from uploading to third-party services — client footage under NDA, unreleased campaign assets, anything covered by a confidentiality clause.
How it works
1. Drop your .docx
Word files up to 80 MB are unzipped in your browser; a .doc must be re-saved as .docx first.
2. Check the body text
Paragraphs from the document body fill the preview box, with tabs and line breaks kept.
3. Download the .txt
Copy from the box or save a UTF-8 .txt file named after your document.
Questions
Why can it read a .docx but not a .doc?
They are different formats that share a name. A .docx is a ZIP of XML. The older .doc is a proprietary binary with no such structure. Re-save as .docx from Word, Pages or LibreOffice and it becomes readable.
Where did the header, text box and comments go?
Headers, footers and comments live in other parts of the package (word/header1.xml, comments.xml), not in document.xml, so they are skipped. Text boxes do sit in the body and usually come through, sometimes twice. Text that is only a picture of letters, such as a screenshot or a scanned page, is pixels, and there is nothing here to OCR it.
What formatting survives in the .txt?
Only the words and their line structure. Each paragraph becomes a line, tabs and manual line breaks are kept, runs of blank lines are collapsed, and bold, fonts, styles and images are dropped. Table cells come out one per line rather than as columns.
Related tools
Stay in the same job cluster. Free tools stay on-device; paid tools are labelled as such.
These rearrange files. Versely makes new ones.
Everything on this page works on a file you already have, which is why it costs nothing. Generating something that did not exist (video from a prompt, a voice, a score) runs a model, and that costs credits.