Convert legacy Word (.doc) to Markdown

Turns a Word 97-2003 document into Markdown — the format modern tools have been quietly dropping support for. Everything runs inside your browser, so the file is never uploaded.

Drag & drop a file here, or click to browse

Accepts: .docx, .xlsx, .pptx, .doc, .xls, .ppt, .odt, .ods, .odp, .rtf, .epub, .csv, .pdf

Runs automatically as soon as a file is selected.

When this helps

Anyone opening an old archive

A .doc from a shared drive no longer opens cleanly in current Office or Google Docs

Pull the text out as Markdown without launching Word, and keep it as something searchable

Anyone without Microsoft Office

A .doc arrives by email and buying Office to read it once is absurd

Open it in the browser and read the contents — nothing is uploaded

Anyone feeding documents to an LLM

.doc cannot be pasted into ChatGPT or Claude at all

Convert to Markdown first, then paste it in for a summary or a rewrite

Researcher or archivist

A folder of decades-old documents needs to become plain text to be indexed

Convert each file and keep the Markdown alongside the original

FAQ

Is my file uploaded to your server?
No. If your browser supports WebAssembly (WASM, a technology for running software inside the browser safely and quickly), the conversion happens entirely on your device and the file never leaves it. Reading legacy formats loads a 2.2MB engine on the first run only; after that it comes from your browser's cache.
Which other formats does this page accept?
.docx, .xlsx and .pptx, .xls and .ppt, OpenDocument (.odt, .ods, .odp), .rtf, .epub, .csv and .pdf. The format is detected from the file's contents rather than its name, so a file whose extension does not match what is actually inside it still converts correctly.
Will every .doc convert?
No. Word 97-2003 was in use for over twenty years and what is inside a .doc varies by the product that wrote it. Across 40 real files, 30 converted and 6 contained no text data at all — documents pasted in as images, for example. When there is no text to extract, the tool says so instead of handing you an empty file that looks like a success.
What is kept and what is lost?
Kept: headings, bold and italic, bulleted and numbered lists, tables and footnotes. Lost: images, fonts and colours, columns, headers and footers, tracked changes and comments — Markdown has no way to express them.
Can it open password-protected files?
No. An encrypted file cannot be read, so the tool tells you it is password-protected and stops. Remove the password in Word first.
What about WordPerfect or other formats saved as .doc?
Not supported. If the extension says .doc but the contents are some other word processor's format, the tool reports that it cannot read the file rather than guessing.
What is the file size limit?
20MB per file.

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