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About DOT to TXT Conversion
DOT is the legacy Microsoft Word template format containing formatted text, styles, images, and page settings in a proprietary binary structure. TXT (Plain Text) is the simplest possible text format — raw character data with no formatting, images, or structural markup. Every device and operating system can read TXT files natively.
Converting DOT to TXT extracts the pure textual content from a legacy Word template, stripping all formatting, images, macros, and template properties. This produces the most portable and universally accessible representation of the template's written content.
Why Convert DOT to TXT?
Plain text is the universal foundation of text processing. When you need to extract content from a legacy DOT template for use in scripts, databases, content management systems, or any automated text processing pipeline, TXT is the required format. No parsing library or special software is needed to read the output.
TXT also serves as the ultimate archive format for text content. While DOT files require specific software versions to open correctly, TXT files are guaranteed to be readable by any computer system indefinitely. For long-term preservation of textual content where formatting is not important, TXT is the safest choice.
Common Use Cases
- Extract boilerplate text from legacy DOT templates for import into modern content systems
- Feed template text content into search indexes, databases, or text analysis tools
- Create plain text backups of legacy template content for permanent preservation
- Import template text into version control systems for change tracking
- Prepare legacy template content for migration to new document authoring systems
How It Works
LibreOffice opens the DOT binary file and extracts the document text stream. The text extraction walks the binary paragraph table, extracting character content from each paragraph while discarding formatting properties. Table content is linearized with tab separation between cells. Headers, footers, and footnote text may be included in the output. Images and all non-text content are omitted. The output is written as UTF-8 plain text with standard line endings.
Quality & Performance
All textual content is extracted accurately from the template. However, all visual presentation is lost — formatting, fonts, colors, styles, page layout, headers, footers, and images are completely stripped. Tables become tab-delimited text rows. The output is purely the written characters from the document, suitable for content processing but not for visual presentation.
Device Compatibility
| Device | DOT | TXT |
|---|---|---|
| Windows PC | Partial | Partial |
| macOS | Partial | Partial |
| iPhone/iPad | Partial | Partial |
| Android | Partial | Partial |
| Linux | Partial | Partial |
| Web Browser | No | No |
Tips for Best Results
- 1Use TXT only when you need the raw text content — for formatted output, convert to DOCX or RTF instead
- 2Check table data extraction since multi-column layouts may be difficult to read as tab-separated text
- 3TXT is ideal for feeding legacy template content into automated processing pipelines
- 4Always keep the original DOT file as your formatting reference
- 5Open the TXT output in a text editor that supports UTF-8 to ensure all characters display correctly
DOT-to-TXT conversion extracts raw text content from legacy Word templates, producing the most portable and universally compatible text representation for content processing, archival, and system migration.