tinyweb-office-words

A lightweight, open-source Node.js library for converting DOCX, DOC, RTF, TXT, and MD files to Markdown, plain text, and PDF without requiring Microsoft Word.

Features

• DOCX Support: Pure Node.js reader using adm-zip and fast-xml-parser
• DOC Support: Word 97-2003 binary format reader (planned)
• RTF Support: Rich Text Format reader (planned, delegates to DOC)
• Plain Text & Markdown Input: Read .txt and .md files
• Markdown Export: Rich formatting — headings, bold/italic/strikethrough/underline, ordered and unordered lists (including nested), tables, block quotes, code blocks, and hyperlinks
• PDF Export: Generate PDF output via pdfkit
• Plain Text Export: Extract document text content

Installation

npm install tinyweb-office-words

Quick Start

Convert a document to Markdown

import { Document, SaveFormat } from 'tinyweb-office-words';

const doc = new Document('input.docx');  // or .doc, .rtf, .txt, .md
doc.save('output.md', SaveFormat.MARKDOWN);

Export to PDF

import { Document, SaveFormat } from 'tinyweb-office-words';

const doc = new Document('input.docx');
doc.save('output.pdf', SaveFormat.PDF);

Extract plain text

import { Document } from 'tinyweb-office-words';

const doc = new Document('input.docx');
const text = doc.getText();

Save with options

import { Document } from 'tinyweb-office-words';
import { MarkdownSaveOptions, PdfSaveOptions, TableContentAlignment } from 'tinyweb-office-words/saving';

const doc = new Document('input.docx');

const mdOpts = new MarkdownSaveOptions();
mdOpts.export_underline_formatting = true;
doc.save('output.md', mdOpts);

const pdfOpts = new PdfSaveOptions();
doc.save('output.pdf', pdfOpts);

Requirements

• Node.js >= 18.0.0
• Dependencies: adm-zip, fast-xml-parser, pdfkit, zod

Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build
npm run build

# Run tests
npm test

License

MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.