Converting DOCX to plain text strips all formatting, images, tables, and metadata from the Word document, extracting only the raw Unicode text content. DOCX is an XML-based Office Open XML format that stores text alongside paragraph styles, character formatting, embedded images, OLE objects, and revision history. Plain text (TXT) contains only the character stream with no structural markup. During conversion, paragraph breaks are preserved as newline characters, and table cells are separated by tab characters or newlines. Formatting such as bold, italic, font size, and colour is discarded entirely. Embedded images, headers, footers, and footnote content are omitted unless the conversion tool specifically extracts footnotes as appended text. The output encoding is UTF-8 by default, preserving all Unicode characters present in the source. This conversion is useful for feeding document content into text-processing pipelines, search indexes, or natural language processing tools. 1converter uses LibreOffice in headless mode for this extraction.