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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.Add to Chrome

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 it once, not on every form

Fixing a file here means downloading it and going back to the form. The Fylane extension does this work inside the form instead, on the file you already have.

And it keeps the result. The next application that asks for a résumé, a cover letter and a photo fills all three from one tap, each one refitted to what that site accepts.

Your files stay in the browser, encrypted, on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to keep them and nothing is sent anywhere to fill a form.

Filmed from the extension: three upload fields on a job application, filled from one tap.

Add to Chrome — freeWhat it does

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.