Why not just use paste-as-plain-text in my CMS?

Browser paste-as-plain-text behavior is inconsistent across CMS editors and often still carries some formatting. Extracting to TXT file first gives you a guaranteed clean source that is format-agnostic before it ever reaches your editor.

Will the extracted text preserve the article's paragraph and section structure?

Yes. Paragraph breaks and tabs are preserved in the output, so section structure and spacing are maintained for copyediting before you apply your CMS's own formatting.

Are headings from the Word document preserved as headings?

No. Heading styles are not preserved — all text is output as plain text. Heading structure needs to be re-applied in your CMS or editing tool, which is typically the correct approach for publishing workflows anyway.

Can I process multiple article drafts at once?

Yes. Upload multiple DOCX files in a single session; each produces its own TXT output file.

Strip Word Formatting and Extract Clean Text for CMS Publishing Workflows

Pasting from Word into a CMS is a formatting disaster — invisible spans, Microsoft-specific markup, and style bleed that breaks your site's design. Extracting plain text first gives you clean copy that goes into your CMS, static site generator, or editorial tool without carrying Word's formatting baggage.

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Content teams receiving drafts from writers in Word format face a consistent problem: the document formatting has nothing to do with the target publishing environment. Whether you are pasting into WordPress, Contentful, Sanity, or a custom CMS, Word's embedded styles, font definitions, and spacing overrides create noise that has to be manually stripped or programmatically cleaned. Converting to plain text upstream eliminates this step entirely.

Deliteful extracts the main body text from each DOCX with paragraph breaks and tabs preserved, outputting UTF-8 TXT. This is the clean slate that copyeditors and content ops teams actually want before reformatting for the web. Images, tables, headers, and footers are excluded — when those elements matter, they are handled separately in the publishing workflow.

How it works

1
Create your free account
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2
Upload the Word draft
Add the DOCX file from your writer or content source.
3
Extract plain text
Deliteful strips formatting and outputs a clean UTF-8 TXT file.
4
Paste or import into your CMS
Use the clean text as your paste-safe source for any publishing environment.

Frequently asked questions

Why not just use paste-as-plain-text in my CMS?: Browser paste-as-plain-text behavior is inconsistent across CMS editors and often still carries some formatting. Extracting to TXT file first gives you a guaranteed clean source that is format-agnostic before it ever reaches your editor.
Will the extracted text preserve the article's paragraph and section structure?: Yes. Paragraph breaks and tabs are preserved in the output, so section structure and spacing are maintained for copyediting before you apply your CMS's own formatting.
Are headings from the Word document preserved as headings?: No. Heading styles are not preserved — all text is output as plain text. Heading structure needs to be re-applied in your CMS or editing tool, which is typically the correct approach for publishing workflows anyway.
Can I process multiple article drafts at once?: Yes. Upload multiple DOCX files in a single session; each produces its own TXT output file.

Create your free Deliteful account with Google and extract formatting-free text from your Word drafts for clean CMS publishing.