docx2txt is a small and free C++20 library for converting Microsoft Word documents (*.docx) into plain text. It also supports OpenDocument text (*.odt) but defaults to Word's Office Open XML when encountering an unknown file extension.

docx2txt uses miniz (included as source code) for decompression and pugixml (included as submodule) for parsing.

Features

• Extracts all text from paragraphs in the main document, including text inside tables and text boxes.
• Does not extract text from headers or footers.
• Provides a single C++ function with the following signature:

Note

Text from floating elements like text boxes is inserted at their anchor positon, not necessarily where they appear visually.

namespace docx2txt {

    [[nodiscard]] std::string docx2txt(const std::string& path);

} // namespace docx2txt 

Pass the path of your *.docx file and the function returns the plain text contained in the file.

If the file cannot be opened, uncompressed, or parsed, the function throws a std::runtime_error.

Example

#include <docx2txt.hpp>
#include <iostream>

int main() {
    std::cout << docx2txt::docx2txt("path/to/word.docx") << std::endl;
    return 0;
}

Integration

You can integrate docx2txt as a static library into your project by adding it as a Git submodule:

mkdir 3rdparty
cd 3rdparty

git submodule add https://github.com/crawlserv/docx2txt
git submodule update --init --recursive

Then, include it in your root CMakeLists.txt:

add_subdirectory("3rdparty/docx2txt")

target_link_libraries(yourtarget PRIVATE docx2txt)

Replace yourtarget with the name of your build target.