Simple Word to Text

@marcus_johansson I've been working on this and went a bit broader — instead of a Word-only module, I created AI File to Text (ai_file_to_text) which handles Word (.docx, .doc), ODT, ODS, CSV, TXT, Markdown, and PDF all in one module.

Regarding the naming discussion and whether to merge with ai_simple_pdf_to_text — While ai_file_to_text covers all the file types mentioned here (Word, CSV, TXT) plus PDF, ODT, ODS, and Markdown. The naming ai_file_to_text reflects that it's not limited to one format.

PDF is included because it made sense to have one module that handles all common document types rather than requiring users to install two separate modules and have two separate fields. The file extractor also adds styled HTML output with table detection, heading recognition, and font styling on top of what ai_simple_pdf_to_text provides.

It supports three output formats (plain text, HTML, and Markdown), and extraction is pure PHP — no external services needed.

please give it a look: https://www.drupal.org/project/ai_file_to_text

It's also easy to provide support for new file types, as each file type extractor is a service type controlled by an extractor manager; therefore, the main functionality is independent of the file type.

What about Word to MD? This would be helpful for CCC

Or perhaps its Word => Text => MD?

Actually yes,
It also supports MD (Markdown);-
file -> html -> md format
file.md -> HTML format
file.md -> text format
file.md -> md format

  /**
   * Extract content from a file in the requested format.
   *
   * @param string $filePath
   *   The real filesystem path to the file.
   * @param string $extension
   *   The file extension (lowercase, no dot).
   * @param string $format
   *   The output format: 'text', 'html', or 'markdown'.
   *
   * @return string|null
   *   The extracted content, or NULL if the extension is unsupported.
   */
  public function extract(string $filePath, string $extension, string $format = 'text'): ?string {
    if (!isset($this->extensionMap[$extension])) {
      return NULL;
    }

    $extractor = $this->extensionMap[$extension];

    if ($format === 'text') {
      return $extractor->extractText($filePath, $extension);
    }

    // Both 'html' and 'markdown' need HTML first.
    $html = $extractor->extractHtml($filePath, $extension);

    if ($format === 'markdown') {
      return $this->htmlToMarkdown($html);
    }

    return $html;
  }

@kristen pol
I uploaded a video showing the results.

Very cool. We definitely want this 🙏