---
title: Extract Text from Word API
slug: extract-word-text
url: https://apyverse.com/apyhub/service/extract-word-text
provider: ApyHub
categories: [Data Extraction, Developer Tools, File Conversion]
auth: api_key
---

# Extract Text from Word API

Extract plain text from Word documents by URL or file upload. Returns the text in a single data field for search, parsing, and automation.

## Endpoints

| Method | Path | Description | Atoms |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| POST | `/extract/text/word-url` | What it does Extracts the text content from a Word document hosted at a remote URL and returns the… | 60 |
| POST | `/extract/text/word-file` | What it does Uploads a Word document and extracts its text content. The response returns the extrac… | 60 |

## About

## What it does
Word Text Extractor pulls plain text out of .doc and .docx files. Send a remote document URL to `/url`, or upload a Word file to `/file`, and get the extracted text back in `data`.

Use `preserve_paragraphs` when you need the text to keep paragraph breaks instead of flattening everything into one string. That makes the output easier to feed into search indexing, document processing pipelines, review workflows, or downstream NLP steps that depend on paragraph boundaries.

The response is intentionally simple: a single `data` field containing the extracted text. That makes Word Text Extractor easy to drop into automation jobs where you only need the readable content, not formatting, styles, or embedded layout details.

If you are building import tools, content migration flows, or internal document search, this service gives you a direct way to turn Word documents into text your code can work with.

## Usage

Authenticate with an ApyHub API key in the `apy-token` header.
Full docs and a live playground: https://apyverse.com/apyhub/service/extract-word-text