.docx files in your terminal — no Microsoft Word required

A fast, terminal-native document viewer for Word files. View, search, and export .docx documents without leaving your command line.

Terminal image display	Color support
Smart tables with alignment	Lists and formatting

• Beautiful terminal rendering with formatting, tables, and lists
• Fast search with highlighting 🔍
• Smart tables with proper alignment and Unicode borders
• Copy to clipboard — grab content directly from the terminal
• Export formats — Markdown, CSV, JSON, plain text
• Terminal images for Kitty, iTerm2, WezTerm 🖼️
• Color support — see Word document colors in your terminal

brew install doxx

cargo install doxx

pacman -S doxx

The AUR package is also available for the development version:

yay -S doxx-git

Thanks to @mhegreberg for creating and maintaining the AUR package!

nix profile install github:bgreenwell/doxx

Thanks to @bobberb for creating the Nix flake!

conda install doxx

or globally using Pixi:

pixi global install doxx

# Coming soon
scoop bucket add doxx https://github.com/bgreenwell/doxx-scoop
scoop install doxx

Download from GitHub releases:

# macOS/Linux - automatic platform detection
curl -L https://github.com/bgreenwell/doxx/releases/latest/download/doxx-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m).tar.gz | tar xz
sudo mv doxx /usr/local/bin/

# Verify installation
doxx --version

Available platforms:

• Linux: x86_64-unknown-linux-musl (statically linked)
• macOS: x86_64-apple-darwin (Intel) and aarch64-apple-darwin (Apple Silicon)
• Windows: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

git clone https://github.com/bgreenwell/doxx.git
cd doxx
cargo install --path .

# Or for development
cargo build --release

Requirements:

• Rust 1.70+
• System dependencies: libxcb (Linux only)

# View a document
doxx report.docx

# Search for content
doxx contract.docx --search "payment"

# Start with outline view
doxx document.docx --outline

# Export to different formats
doxx data.docx --export csv > data.csv
doxx report.docx --export markdown > report.md

# View with images (supported terminals)
doxx presentation.docx --images --export text

# Enable color rendering
doxx slides.docx --color

doxx [OPTIONS] <FILE>

Export examples:

doxx report.docx --export markdown  # Convert to Markdown
doxx data.docx --export csv         # Extract tables as CSV (tables only!)
doxx document.docx --export text    # Plain text output
doxx structure.docx --export json   # Document metadata as JSON

📊 CSV export note: The CSV export extracts only tables from the document, ignoring all text content. Perfect for pulling structured data from business reports, research papers, or surveys for analysis in Excel, Python, or databases.

Image examples:

doxx presentation.docx --images                    # Show images inline
doxx document.docx --images --image-width 80       # Limit image width
doxx slides.docx --extract-images ./images/        # Save images to folder

⚠️ Image display notes:

• --images currently works with --export text mode and shows placeholders in TUI
• Supports iTerm2, Kitty, and WezTerm terminals

Current terminal tools for Word documents:

• docx2txt → Loses all formatting, mangled tables
• pandoc → Complex chain, formatting lost
• antiword → Only handles old .doc files

doxx gives you:

• ✅ Rich formatting preserved (bold, italic, headers)
• ✅ Professional table rendering with alignment
• ✅ Interactive navigation and search
• ✅ Multiple export formats for workflows
• ✅ Terminal image display for modern terminals
• ✅ Fast startup (50ms vs Word's 8+ seconds)

Perfect for developers, sysadmins, and anyone who prefers the terminal.

# Get overview and search
doxx quarterly-report.docx
doxx --search "revenue"

# Extract tables for analysis
doxx financial-data.docx --export csv | python analyze.py

# Review and copy sections
doxx meeting-notes.docx
# Press 'c' to copy current view to clipboard

# Copy search results
doxx specs.docx --search "requirements"
# Press F2 to copy results with context

# Extract text for processing
doxx notes.docx --export text | grep "action items"

# Get document structure
doxx report.docx --export json | jq '.metadata'

Built with Rust for performance:

• docx-rs — Document parsing
• ratatui — Terminal UI
• viuer — Image rendering
• unicode-segmentation — Proper Unicode handling

# Build and test
cargo build --release
cargo test

# Run with sample document
cargo run -- tests/fixtures/sample.docx

• Image support in TUI via ratatui-image crate
• Enhanced table support (merged cells, complex layouts)
• Performance improvements for large documents
• Hyperlink navigation
• Custom themes

This project was inspired by Charm's Glow package — the beautiful terminal Markdown renderer that shows how terminal document viewing can be both powerful and elegant. Just as Glow brings rich Markdown rendering to your command line, doxx aims to do the same for Microsoft Word documents.

Thanks to the Charm team for the inspiration! ✨

MIT License — see LICENSE file for details.

Made for developers who live in the terminal 🚀