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EPUB to Word DOCX converter

EPUB to DOCX is a document engine document conversion, and our rich chapter headings arrived in Word as Heading1 styles.

  • Converted with Document engine · input deleted within 24 h
  • Free: 5 conversions a day · 5 MB each
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From real runs

What you get — and what changes

  • Chapter headings Kept

    The inspected DOCX document.xml contained Heading1 styles for the rich EPUB chapter headings.

  • Images Kept

    The rich EPUB image was written into word/media as a PNG relationship rather than being flattened to text.

  • Tables Kept

    Feature, Table cell, Unicode café, and yes appeared as Word table cell text in document.xml.

  • Footnotes Changed

    Our document engine moved footnote content into the DOCX footnotes part, so it was not visible inside document.xml.

  • Ebook CSS Changed

    EPUB reader CSS became Word paragraph styles such as Title, Author, Date, BodyText, and Compact.

  • Package metadata Changed

    The DOCX kept author-like text in the document, but OPF package fields no longer existed as ebook metadata.

Sample conversions

Rich EPUB with embedded PNG

Input
Two-chapter EPUB created by the API from Markdown, with title Rich QA EPUB, author FTC Writer QA, one PNG, a table, and a footnote.
Output
12,234 byte DOCX with word/document.xml, word/styles.xml, word/media/rId25.png, Heading1 chapter styles, and table cell text intact.

Feedback Atlas sample

Input
One-chapter EPUB report with Headline numbers and What went well sections, a metrics table, and bold CSAT percentage text.
Output
11,666 byte DOCX where the main report heading used Heading1, the section heading used Heading2, and no media files were created.

A real EPUB → Word DOCX run

We converted our EPUB sample (5 KB) with Document engine on 2026-09-11. It took 38 ms and produced a 11 KB Word DOCX file, 2.1× larger than the input. The engine raised no warnings.

Input · sample.epub · 5 KB

EPUB 3.0: 3 content documents, 0 images, EPUB 3 nav, no cover

Version
3.0
Content documents
3
Images
0
Table of contents
EPUB 3 nav
Cover
no cover

Output · sample.docx · 11 KB

Word document: 20 paragraphs, 3 headings, 1 table, 0 embedded images; fonts Consolas

Paragraphs
20
Headings
3
Tables
1
Images
0
Archive parts
16
Fonts
Consolas

Options and when to change them

toc
Set this when the Word document should include a generated table of contents before the converted chapters.

Do it yourself

Pandoc

bash
pandoc in.epub -o out.docx --toc

Review the DOCX styles after conversion because EPUB CSS names and Word paragraph styles are not equivalent.

EPUB to Word DOCX by API or MCP

The HTTP API and the MCP server run the exact engine this page uses (Document engine); the response carries the same warnings the web converter shows. Check support first with GET /api/v1/pairs?from=epub&to=docx.

curl
curl -X POST https://filetypeconverters.com/api/v1/convert \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FTC_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@input.epub" -F "from=epub" -F "to=docx" \
  --output output.docx
API reference

When this is the wrong conversion

  • Use /convert/epub-to-md if the next edits belong in Git, static site content, or a Markdown publishing workflow.
  • Use /convert/epub-to-pdf when layout review matters more than editing the text.
  • Do not use DOCX as an archive replacement for EPUB packages with fonts, covers, and reader navigation.

EPUB to Word DOCX questions

Will EPUB chapters become Word headings?

They did in the rich fixture. Our document engine mapped the chapter headings we inspected to Heading1 styles in the generated DOCX XML.

Where did the footnotes go in the DOCX?

They move into the DOCX footnotes part instead of staying inline in document.xml. Word displays them as notes, but XML inspection has to read word/footnotes.xml.

Can DOCX preserve the EPUB cover and reader navigation?

Not as EPUB package features. Images can be embedded, but OPF metadata, spine order files, nav.xhtml, and NCX are replaced by Word document structure.

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