Complete Guide to DOC to TXT Conversion
What is DOC to TXT Conversion?
Converts Microsoft Word documents into plain text (TXT). Removes proprietary formatting while keeping the text content,
ideal for logs, ingestion pipelines, and text-only systems.
Use Cases
- Strip styles for NLP and search indexing
- Feed text into CLI tools and scripts
- Archive content in minimal format
Best Practices
- Remove non-text objects if not needed
- Ensure consistent paragraph and heading structure
- Use UTF-8 characters for portability
- Normalize line endings (LF/CRLF) as required
- Trim excessive whitespace
- Compress large text with gzip for storage
Troubleshooting
Re-export the source as UTF-8 and avoid special controls or smart quotes.