DOC to TXT API

The API for converting Word documents to Text files.

The API for converting Word DOC documents to TXT files. Easily extract text from Word documents.

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API Endpoint

ConvertAPI offers a cloud-based solution, which makes DOC to TXT conversion effortless with just a single REST-API call:

        HTTP POST
    
https://v2.convertapi.com/convert/doc/to/txt

Postman OpenAPI cURL CLI

Authenticate your API call

Converting doc to txt via REST-API is now easier than ever. Sign up for a free account to obtain your authentication secret, append it as a query string parameter to the conversion URL, and voilà! You can find advanced authentication techniques in our docs.

        QUERY AUTHENTICATION
    
https://v2.convertapi.com/convert/doc/to/txt?secret=your-api-secret

Convert DOC to TXT using REST-API in no time!

Once you have your authentication in place, you can convert your files using application/json, multipart/form-data and application/octet-stream content types. A simple HTTP POST request using JSON would look like this:

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REM Code snippet is using the command line utility program: https://github.com/ConvertAPI/convertapi-cli

Conversion request using cURL

You can easily convert doc to txt with a simple cURL request. Our documentation provides more advanced cURL request techniques.

File conversion using CLI

ConvertAPI CLI allows you to convert files using our command-line file conversion utility tool. Check out CLI documentation for a detailed explanation and usage examples.

REM Code snippet is using the command line utility program: https://github.com/ConvertAPI/convertapi-cli

Upload the file and see how it works

You can set up the advanced conversion parameters and test the conversion result online using our interactive demo tool. It will auto-generate the code snippet for you!

Advanced DOC to TXT conversion parameters

Password String

Sets the password to open protected documents.

Substitutions Bool

Replace similar symbols with their counterparts in a text file, such as a copyright symbol with (c).

LineBreaks Bool

Inserts line breaks at the end of each line of text.

TextEncoding Collection

Specifies what encoding the parser should use when converting text files.

Values: auto ascii utf-7 utf-8 iso-8859-1 iso-8859-2 iso-8859-6 iso-8859-15 windows-1252 arabicasmo baltic centraleuropean cyrillic europa extalphalowercase greek hebrew hzgbsimplifiedchinese german japaneseshiftjis koi8-r koi8-u korean thai turkish unicodebigendian unicodelittleendian vietnamese

EndLineChar Collection

Set end of line character. The character which will be used to break lines.

Values: crlf cr lfcr lf

SaveFormat Collection

Specifies the format to use when saving a document.

Values: wintext wintextlb dostext dostextlb unicodetext