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Word to EPUB

Headings become chapters, the text reflows on every screen.

More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.About the extension

How to convert Word to EPUB

  1. Drop the document.
  2. Nothing to choose.
  3. Press Convert and download the EPUB.

What happens to your file

pandoc reads the DOCX on Fylane’s servers and writes an EPUB 3: each Heading 1 starts a chapter in the table of contents, styles become semantic HTML, pictures ride inside the book. An ODT, RTF, TXT or HTML file goes through DOCX first. The cover is the first picture if the document has one; a proper cover image is a later feature.

Page layout does not survive, and is not meant to — an e-book reflows to the reader’s screen and font size. Tables and footnotes stay; text boxes and columns flatten into the flow.

Questions

Will Kindle open it?

Yes — Send to Kindle and the Kindle apps accept EPUB since 2022. For older devices convert the EPUB to MOBI in Calibre.

Why are my chapters missing from the contents?

Chapters come from Word’s heading styles. Bold big text is not a heading; apply Heading 1 to each chapter title and convert again.

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "convert",
    "options": {
      "to": "epub"
    }
  }'

The same operation, convert — Documents into another document format: Office, text and HTML to PDF by default, or by `to` into docx, odt, rtf, txt, html, xlsx, ods, csv, pptx, odp, md or epub (Markdown and EPUB through pandoc). Images to WebP. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.