Hello everyone. I want to introduce you to a simple yet effective day-to-day solution for the exact conversion of rich text to plain text. Traditional converters do not maintain the ordered/unordered list style when converting. This leads to some scrambled text to maintain.
This <a href="https://docs-to-plain-text-converter.netlify.app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">docs-to-plain-text</a> will 100% keep your formatting. It has two modes: Paste and Upload. Everything happens in your browser. Your file is not uploaded to a server.
<img src="https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--X9kYbcez--/f_auto/v1777723003/ugc/content_398a38bb-a72b-4e9b-863b-8e0d1bf6e4d4?_a=BAMAMiWQ0" alt="Screenshot 2026-05-02 at 17-56-01 Untitled document - Google Docs.png">
For the above rich text, the exact plain text would look like
<img src="https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--45PEtJ5V--/f_auto/v1777723014/ugc/content_964e2065-ed17-4bc3-aa4d-7c40262d1746?_a=BAMAMiWQ0" alt="Screenshot 2026-05-02 at 17-56-20 Docs to Plain Text Converter – Remove Word Formatting Free.png">
Try it out <a href="https://docs-to-plain-text-converter.netlify.app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">here</a>.

nazmuShakib

A browser-based tool for converting rich text (e.g., Google Docs) to plain text while preserving ordered and unordered list formatting. It supports paste and upload modes, processes everything client-side without server uploads, and addresses a common formatting loss issue found in traditional converters.

Exactly convert rich text to plain text (with format preservation)