Convert ODT to TXT
An ODT document gives up plain text: headings and emphasis go, and table cells come out line by line.
Convert ODT to TXT when only the content matters: text fed to a script, pasted into a form field, or filed in a system that would throw the styling away anyway.
What happens when you convert ODT to TXT
The document loses everything but the words. A heading becomes an ordinary line, bold and italic disappear, and font sizes and page margins stop mattering.
The order of the text is kept in full. List items come out with a bullet and an indent, while a table unfolds cell by cell: each cell takes its own line, so the rows of the table cannot be put back together from the result.
- Non-Latin alphabets read correctly in any editor.
- Images, headers and footers do not reach the text.
- The file is small and opens where no office suite exists.
When the structure has to survive, take the ODT to HTML converter, where headings and tables stay as markup. For sending and printing there is the ODT to PDF converter.
How to convert
- Upload your ODT file to this page.
- Check that the target format is TXT.
- Start the conversion and wait for the finished file.
- Open the result in any text editor.
Frequently asked questions
What happens to tables from the document?
The content survives, the columns do not: cells are printed one after another, a line per cell.
Do headings and emphasis stay?
No. A text file holds no styles and no weights, so a heading looks like any other line.
More about the formats
What the format is, how to open it and how it differs from the others.