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Word & Document Tools — Convert PDF, TXT, ZIP & EPUB to Word | ButDoc
Online Document Toolkit

Everything you need to work with Documents.

Convert, edit, and transform Word, ODT, RTF, HTML and more — right in your browser. No installs, no sign-up, no waiting.

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Word & Document Tools

Nine tools for getting content into an editable Word document and back out again — grouped by direction. Everything runs in your browser, free, with no sign-up.

Convert into Word

Get content out of another format and into an editable document.

Convert out of Word

Take a document somewhere it will hold its shape, or strip it back.

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Which tool do you need?

Document formats disagree with each other in specific, predictable ways. These are the choices that most often go wrong.

Your PDF will not convert properly

Open it and try to select a sentence. If the text highlights, PDF to Word will give you a real document. If nothing highlights, it is a scan — a photograph of a page with no text inside — and needs OCR first.

Your .docx downloaded as a .zip

Nothing is broken. A Word document genuinely is a ZIP archive internally, so some browsers and mail clients label it that way. Rename it back to .docx and it opens. If the file really is an archive of several documents, ZIP to Word pulls them out.

Accented characters turned into strange symbols

A .txt file carries no record of which character encoding it uses, so software has to guess. Save the original as UTF-8 before running TXT to Word and the accents survive. It cannot be repaired afterwards.

Pasting into a website broke the layout

Word puts a full HTML document on your clipboard, complete with Microsoft-specific style rules that override your theme. Word to HTML reads the document's real structure instead — but apply Word's built-in heading styles first, or big bold text stays a bold paragraph rather than becoming a real heading.

Sending a document to someone else

Word to PDF is almost always the right answer. A Word file only names its fonts and hopes the recipient has them, which is why layouts shift between machines. A PDF carries its own fonts and looks identical everywhere.

The text is inside a picture

If you cannot place a cursor in it, no converter can read it — it is pixels, not text. Image to Document uses OCR to recognise the characters, and the result always needs proofreading before you rely on it.

Why ButDoc

Editable documents, without the software

Word describes a document by its structure — this is a heading, this is a list, this paragraph uses the body style — and decides where things land on the page when the file opens. That flexibility is what makes it good for writing and awkward for sharing: change the fonts, the paper size or the version of Word, and the pagination moves.

Every conversion here is a trade between structure and appearance, and each tool page sets out exactly what carries across and what does not. Nothing needs installing, and no format is treated as a black box.

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Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need Microsoft Word installed?
No. Everything runs in your browser. The .docx files produced open in Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice Writer and Apple Pages alike.
Is my formatting preserved?
It depends on what the source format actually stores. A PDF holds character positions rather than paragraphs, so structure has to be inferred. A .txt file holds no formatting at all, so there is nothing to preserve. Each tool page explains what to expect for that specific conversion.
Do I need an account?
No sign-up, no email, nothing to install. Because there is no account there is also no stored file history, so keep your own copies.
What happens to the files I upload?
They travel over an encrypted connection, are processed automatically without human review, and are permanently deleted from our servers within 60 minutes. There is no backup, so nothing can be recovered after that. Full detail is in our Privacy Policy.
Can I work with a password-protected document?
Not while the protection is in place — an encrypted file cannot be read without its password. Open it in Word, remove the password, save a copy, and upload that.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes, on iPhone and Android as well as desktop. Some preparation steps — applying heading styles, adjusting a table — are simply easier on a computer.
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Other formats

Working with something else? Browse PDF tools, Excel tools for spreadsheets, PPTX tools for presentations, and image tools for pictures and scans.