In some situations, users need to convert text from FB2 workbooks to TXT format. Let's see in what ways this can be done.
We can immediately distinguish two main groups of methods for converting FB2 to TXT. The first of them is carried out using online services, and to apply the second one is used software, which is installed on the computer. It is the second group of methods that we will consider in this article. The most correct conversion in this direction is carried out by special converter programs, but this procedure can also be performed using some text editors and readers. Let's look at the algorithms for performing this task using specific applications.
Method 1: Notepad++
First of all, let's see how you can convert in the direction you are studying using one of the most powerful text editors Notepad++.
- Launch Notepad++. Click on the icon in the folder image on the toolbar.
If you are more accustomed to actions using the menu, then use navigation "File" And "Open". Application Ctrl+O will do too.
- The object selection window opens. Find the directory where the source FB2 workbook is located, select it and click "Open".
- The text content of the book, including tags, will appear in the Notepad++ shell.
- But in most cases the tags in TXT file to nothing, and therefore it would be good to remove them. Erasing them manually is quite tedious, but in Notepad++ the whole thing can be automated. If you do not want to delete tags, then you can skip all further steps aimed at this and go straight to the procedure for saving the object. Those users who want to delete must click "Search" and select from the list "Replacement" or apply "Ctrl+H".
- A search window opens in the tab "Replacement". In the field "Find" enter the expression as in the image below. Field "Replace with" leave blank. To make sure that it is really empty and not occupied, for example, by spaces, place the cursor in it and press the Backspace button on the keyboard until the cursor reaches the left border of the field. In the block "Search Mode" be sure to set the radio button to position “Regular. expressed.". After that you can press "Replace All".
- After you close the search window, you will see that all the tags that were in the text were found and deleted.
- Now it's time to convert to TXT format. Click "File" and choose "Save as..." or use a combination Ctrl+Alt+S.
- The save window opens. Open the folder where you want to place the finished text material with TXT extension. In the area "File type" select from the drop-down list "Normal text file (*.txt)". If you wish, you can also change the name of the document in the area "File name", but this is not necessary. Then click "Save".
- Now the content will be saved in TXT format and will be located in that area file system, which was assigned by the user himself in the save window.
Method 2: AlReader
Not only text editors, but also some readers, for example AlReader, can reformat an FB2 book to TXT.
- Launch AlReader. Click "File" and select "Open file".
You can also click right click mice ( RMB) in the internal area of the reader shell and select from the context menu "Open file".
- Each of these actions initiates the activation of the opening window. Find in it the directory where the source FB2 is located and mark this e-book. Then click "Open".
- The contents of the object will be displayed in the reader shell.
- Now you should perform the reformatting procedure. Click "File" and select "Save as TXT".
Or use an alternative action, which consists of clicking on any internal area of the program interface RMB. Then you need to sequentially go through the menu items "File" And "Save as TXT".
- Compact window activated "Save as TXT". In the area, you can select one of the types of encoding of the outgoing text from the drop-down list: UTF-8 (by default) or Win-1251. To start the conversion, click "Apply".
- After this a message will appear "File converted!", which means the object was successfully converted to the selected format. It will be placed in the same folder as the source.
Significant disadvantage this method Before the previous one, the AlReader reader does not allow the user to choose the location of the converted document, since it saves it in the same place where the source is located. But, unlike Notepad++, in AlReader you don’t need to bother with deleting tags, since the application this action performs completely automatically.
Method 3: AVS Document Converter
Many document converters, including AVS Document Converter, cope with the task posed in this article.
- Open the program. First of all, you should add the source. Click on "Add files" in the center of the converter interface.
You can click on the button of the same name on the toolbar.
For those users who are accustomed to always accessing the menu, there is also an option to launch the add window. You need to click on the items "File" And "Add files".
Those for whom the control of hot keys is closer have the opportunity to use Ctrl+O.
- Each of the above actions launches the add document window. Find the directory where the FB2 book is located and select this element. Click "Open".
However, you can add the source without launching the opening window. To do this, drag the FB2 book from "Conductor" to the graphic boundaries of the converter.
- The contents of FB2 will appear in the AVS preview area. Now you should specify the final conversion format. To do this, in the group of buttons "Output Format" click "In TXT".
- You can make minor transformation settings by clicking on the blocks "Format Options", "Convert" And "Extract Images". This will open the corresponding settings fields. In the block "Format Options" You can select one of three encoding options for the output TXT text from the drop-down list:
- UTF-8;
- ANSI;
- Unicode.
- In the block "Rename" you can choose one of three options in the list "Profile":
- Original name;
- Text+Counter;
- Counter+Text.
In the first option, the name of the resulting object remains the same as that of the source. In the last two cases, the field becomes active "Text", where you can enter the desired name. Operator "Counter" means that if the file names match or if you apply group conversion, then to the one specified in the field "Text" the name will have a number added before or after the name, depending on which option was selected in the field "Profile": "Text+Counter" or "Counter+Text".
- In the block "Extract Images" it is possible to extract pictures from the source FB2, since the outgoing TXT does not support displaying pictures. In the field "Destination folder" you should specify the directory in which these pictures will be placed. Then click "Extract Images".
- By default, the output is saved in the directory "My documents" current user profile what you can see in the area "Output folder". If you need to change the directory where the final TXT is located, then click "Review…".
- Activated "Browse folders". In the shell of this tool, go to the directory where you want to store the converted material and click "OK".
- Now the address of the selected area will appear in the interface element "Output folder". Everything is ready for reformatting, so click "Start!".
- The procedure for reformatting the FB2 e-book into TXT text format is in progress. The dynamics of this process can be monitored using data that is displayed as a percentage.
- After completing the procedure, a window will appear telling you that the conversion was successful, and you will also be asked to move to the storage directory of the resulting TXT. To do this, click "Rev. folder".
- Will open "Conductor" in the folder where the resulting text object is placed, with which you can now perform any manipulations available for the TXT format. You can view it using special programs, edit, move and perform other actions.
The advantage of this method over the previous ones is that the converter, unlike text editors and readers, allows you to process a whole group of objects simultaneously, thereby saving a significant amount of time. The main disadvantage is that the AVS application is paid.
Method 4: Notepad
If all previous methods for solving the problem involved installing special software, then when working with the built-in text editor of Windows OS Notepad, this is not required.
- Open Notepad. In the majority Windows versions this can be done via the button "Start" in a folder "Standard". Click "File" and choose "Open…". It is also suitable to use Ctrl+O.
- The opening window opens. It is necessary to see the FB2 object, in the field for specifying the type of formats from the list, select "All files" instead of "Text documents". Find the directory where the source is located. After selecting it from the drop-down list in the field "Encoding" select an option "UTF-8". If, after opening an object, “crazy language” is displayed, then try opening it again, changing the encoding to any other, performing similar manipulations until the text content is displayed correctly. After the file is selected and the encoding is specified, click "Open".
- The contents of FB2 will open in Notepad. Unfortunately, this text editor does not work with regular expressions the way Notepad++ does. Therefore, when working in Notepad, you will either have to accept the presence of tags in the outgoing TXT, or you will have to delete them all manually.
- Once you have decided what to do with the tags and have performed the appropriate manipulations or left everything as is, you can proceed to the saving procedure. Click "File". Next, select the item "Save as...".
- The save window is activated. Use it to navigate to the file system directory where you want to place the TXT. Actually, without additional need, no further adjustments can be made in this window, since the type of the saved file in Notepad will in any case be TXT for the reason that it will not be in any other format this program does not know how to save documents without additional manipulations. But if desired, the user has the opportunity to change the name of the object in the area "File name", and also select the text encoding in the area "Encoding" from the list with the following options:
- UTF-8;
- ANSI;
- Unicode;
- Unicode Big Endian.
After all the settings that you consider necessary to perform have been made, click "Save".
- The text object with the TXT extension will be saved in the directory specified in the previous window, where you can find it for further manipulation.
The only advantage of this conversion method over the previous ones is that to use it you do not need to install additional software; you can only use the system tools. In almost all other aspects, manipulations in Notepad are inferior to the programs described above, since this text editor does not allow mass conversion of objects and does not solve the problem with tags.
We examined in detail the actions in individual instances of various groups of programs that can convert FB2 to TXT. For group conversion of objects, only special converter programs like AVS Document Converter are suitable. But given the fact that most of them are paid, for a single conversion in the above direction, separate readers (AlReader, etc.) or advanced text editors like Notepad++ are quite suitable. In the case when the user still does not want to install additional software, but the quality of the output does not bother him much, then the task can be solved even using the built-in Windows OS program - Notepad.
FB2 is an extremely popular format, and most often you can find e-books in it. There are special reader applications that provide not only support for this format, but also the convenience of displaying content. It’s logical, because many are accustomed to reading not only on a computer screen, but also on mobile devices.
No matter how cool, convenient and widespread FB2 is, the main software solution to create and store text data still remains Microsoft Word and its standard DOC and DOCX formats. In addition, many e-books are still distributed there the old fashioned way.
You can open such a file on any computer with Office installed, but it won’t look very convenient for reading, and not every user will want to bother with changing the text formatting. It is for this reason that the need to translate a Word document into FB2 is so urgent. Actually, we will tell you how to do this below.
Unfortunately, standard means text editor Microsoft Word cannot convert a DOCX document to FB2. To solve this problem you will have to resort to using third party software, namely . This is not the most popular program, but for our purposes its functionality is more than enough.
Even though installation file It takes up less than 1 MB, the characteristics of the application are pleasantly surprising. You can familiarize yourself with them below; you can download this converter on the official website of its developer.
1. After downloading the archive, unpack it using the archiver installed on your computer. If there is none, choose the appropriate one from our articles. We recommend using one of best solutions for working with archives - the WinZip program.
2. Extract the contents of the archive to a convenient location on your hard drive, place all files in one folder. Once done, run executable file.
3. After launching the program, open it Word document, which you want to convert to FB2. To do this, click the button in the form of a folder on the toolbar.
4. After specifying the path to the file, open it by clicking "Open", the text document will be opened (but not displayed) in the program interface. The top window will simply indicate the path to it.
5. Now click the button "File" and select "Convert". As you can see from the hint next to this item, you can start the conversion process using the key "F9".
6. Wait for the process to complete, a window will appear in front of you in which you can set a name for the converted FB2 file and save it to your computer.
Note: By default, the program saves converted files to standard folder "Documents", and by packing them into a ZIP archive.
7. Go to the folder with the archive that contains the FB2 file, extract it and run it in a reader program, for example, the capabilities of which you can familiarize yourself with on our website.
As you can see, a text document in FB2 format looks much more readable than in Word, especially since you can open this file on a mobile device. The same FBReader has an application for almost all desktop and mobile platforms.
This is just one of possible options, which allows you to convert a Word document to FB2. For those users who for some reason are not satisfied with this method, we have prepared another one, which will be discussed below.
Using an online converter
There are quite a few resources that allow you to convert files from one format to another online. The Word direction we need in FB2 is also present on some of them. So that you don’t have to search for a suitable, proven site for a long time, we have already done this for you and offer as many as three online converters to choose from.
Let's look at the conversion process using the last (third) site as an example.
1. Select Word file, which you want to convert to FB2 by specifying the path to it on your computer and opening it in the site interface.
Note: This resource also allows you to provide a link to text file, if it is posted on the web, or download the document from popular cloud storages - Dropbox and Google Drive.
2. In the next window you need to configure the conversion settings:
- Paragraph “Program for reading a received e-book” We recommend leaving it unchanged;
- If necessary, change the file name, author, and margin sizes;
- Parameter "Change initial file encoding" It's better to leave it as it is - "Auto-detection".
3. Press the button "Convert file" and wait for the process to complete.
Note: The download of the converted file will start automatically, so simply specify the path to save it and click "Save".
Now you can open the FB2 file obtained from a Word document in any program that supports this format.
That’s all, as you can see, converting Word to FB2 format is not at all difficult. Just choose the appropriate method and use it, whether it is a converter program or an online resource is up to you.
Many people are concerned about the problem of how to transfer their lectures or simple documents compiled in Word to their favorite smartphone or tablet, where either FBReader or CoolReader or something else has been installed for a long time convenient reader FB2 format.
I tried and tested a program with a simple name doc2fb. (With) e-books
Doc2fb - a very small program designed for conversion. doc, .txt and .rtf files in fb2 format for readers. The program works on PC (Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7) and on PDAs. Provides the opportunity to work in batch mode. The interface language is Russian. ( You can download it below)
In order for the application to work, MS Word 2003 must be installed on the PC (this is a minimum). You must also have javascript with version no lower than 5 (it is included in IE), everything went without problems on my Mozilla and Opera
Vector Word pictures, for example, WMF, do not end up in the final file. Raster images, which differ from JPEG format, are converted to PNG. (proof below)
Here's my example. Example text in Word
And here's what it looks like on Android
Well, the program itself
In the “Folder” line, you need to click on the button with the “>>” image, and then select the folder that contains the necessary DOC files. After this, the “convert” button becomes active.
FB2 is a popular storage format e-books. Applications for viewing such documents, for the most part, are cross-platform, available on both desktop and mobile operating systems. Actually, the demand for this format is dictated by the abundance of programs intended not only for viewing it (more details below).
The FB2 format is extremely easy to read, as in big screen computer and on the much smaller displays of smartphones or tablets. And yet, sometimes users need to convert an FB2 file to Microsoft document Word, be it the legacy DOC or the DOCX that replaced it. We will tell you how to do this in this article.
As it turns out, finding a suitable program for converting FB2 to Word is not so easy. There are quite a lot of them, but most of them are either simply useless or even unsafe. And if some converters simply cannot cope with the task, others will also pollute your computer or laptop with a bunch of unnecessary software from a well-known domestic corporation, so eager to get everyone hooked on its services.
Since everything is not so simple with converter programs, it would be much better to bypass this method altogether, especially since it is not the only one. If you know good program, with which you can convert FB2 to DOC or DOCX, write about it in the comments.
Using online resources for conversion
On the endless expanses of the Internet there are quite a lot of resources with which you can convert one format to another. Some of them allow you to convert FB2 to Word. So that you don’t have to search for a suitable site for a long time, we found it, or rather they, for you. All you have to do is choose the one that you like best.
Let's look at the online conversion process using the Convertio resource as an example.
1. Upload a document in FB2 format to the website. To do this, this online converter offers several methods:
- Specify the path to the folder on your computer;
- Load file from cloud storage Dropbox or Google Drive;
- Provide a link to the document on the Internet.
Note: If you are not registered on this site, the maximum file size that can be uploaded cannot exceed 100 MB. Actually, in most cases this will be enough.
2. Make sure that in the first window with the format FB2 is selected, in the second select the appropriate format text document The Word you want to get in the end. This could be DOC or DOCX.
3. Now you can convert the file, just click on the red virtual button "Convert".
4. Download the converted file to your computer by clicking the green button "Download", or save it to cloud storage.
You can now open the saved file in Microsoft program Word, however, the entire text will most likely be written together. Therefore, you will need to adjust the formatting. For greater convenience, we recommend placing two windows side by side on the screen - an FB2 reader and Word, and then start breaking the text into fragments, paragraphs, etc. Our instructions will help you cope with this task.
Some tricks for working with the FB2 format
The FB2 format is a kind of XML document that has much in common with common HTML. The latter, by the way, can be opened not only in a browser or a specialized editor, but also in Microsoft Word. Knowing this, you can quite easily convert FB2 to Word.
1. Open the folder with the FB2 document that you want to convert.
2. Left-click on it once and rename it, or rather, change the specified format from FB2 to HTML. Confirm your intentions by clicking "Yes" in a pop-up window.
Note: If you cannot change the file extension and can only rename it, follow these steps:
3. Now open the renamed HTML document. It will be displayed in a browser tab.
4. Highlight page content by clicking "CTRL+A", and copy it using the keys "CTRL+C".
Note: Some browsers do not copy text from such pages. If you encounter a similar problem, simply open the HTML file in another web browser.
5. The entire contents of the FB2 document, more precisely, the HTML, is now on the clipboard, from where you can (even need) paste it into Word.
Launch MS Word and click "CTRL+V" to paste copied text.
Unlike the previous method (online converter), converting FB2 to HTML and then inserting it into Word preserves the text breakdown into paragraphs. And yet, if necessary, you can always change the text formatting manually, making the text more readable.
Opening FB2 in Word directly
The methods described above have certain disadvantages:
- text formatting may change during conversion;
- images, tables, and other graphic data that may be contained in such a file will be lost;
- Tags may appear in the converted file, fortunately, they are easy to remove.
Opening FB2 in Word directly is not without its drawbacks, but this method is in fact the simplest and most convenient.
1. Open Microsoft Word and select the command in it "Open other documents"(if shown latest files, with whom you worked, what is relevant for latest versions programs) or go to the menu "File" and press "Open" there.
2. In the Explorer window that opens, select "All files" and specify the path to the document in FB2 format. Click on it and click open.
3. The file will open in a new window in Protected View. If you need to change it, click the button "Allow editing".
Learn more about what Protected View is and how to turn it off. limited functionality document, you can find out from our article.
Note: XML elements included in the FB2 file will be removed
Thus, we opened an FB2 document in Word. All that remains is to work on the formatting and, if necessary (most likely yes), remove tags from it. To do this, press the keys "CTRL+ALT+X".
1. Go to menu "File" and select a team "Save As".
2. In the drop-down menu located under the line with the file name, select the DOCX extension. If necessary, you can also rename the document.
3. Specify the path to save and click "Save".
That's all, now you know how you can convert an FB2 file into a Word document. Choose the method that is convenient for you. By the way, reverse conversion is also possible, that is, a DOC or DOCX document can be converted to FB2. How to do this is described in our material.
For you, as a fan of reading e-books, there are many formats that are designed specifically for reading on mobile devices that should be familiar. Perhaps you have also heard about the FB2 format? FB2 is a book representation format in XML format and created in Russia. In this format, each element is described by its own tags. What makes this format convenient for many users is that it is supported by many mobile platforms, which means it can be used to read books on these platforms. It is good because it consists of tags and can be drawn in accordance with the rendering of this format on different devices. The format also contains descriptive text formatting tags such as bold, font size, underlining, etc.
How to convert PDF to FB2
Why our online converter to FB2 format?
There are many types of converters to the FB2 format on the Internet, but what makes our converter unique and why users should choose it. Below we have presented a list of advantages of our online PDF to FB2 converter that every e-book reader should consider when choosing:
- Our FB2 converter has no restrictions on the size of the document to be converted.
- Our converter is absolutely free and does not require additional installations or accounts.
- The entire conversion process takes place on our dedicated servers and does not require user resources.
Follow the steps below to convert your PDF files to FB2
- Visit our website and select the menu “To FB2 format”
- You can download the file from disk or from another Internet resource
- After loading the document, the converter will start automatically
- Depending on the size of your PDF document or other format, conversion may take from a few seconds to several minutes
- Once the conversion is complete, the document will be automatically saved to the user’s disk in the browser.
- Repeat steps if you want to convert more documents