Free online DOC to AVI converter

A device or playback system that accepts AVI but cannot display Word files may require a document as a page-by-page video. Conversion renders each page as a timed image; the result is not an editable document.

What the DOC format is

DOC is the legacy binary document format used by Microsoft Word, especially Word 97–2003. Microsoft Word and compatible word processors such as LibreOffice Writer can create or open DOC files. DOC stores formatted pages and document elements, not video frames.

What the AVI format is

AVI (Audio Video Interleave) is a Microsoft video container that can hold video and audio streams. Its support depends on the codecs inside it; a file ending in .avi is not guaranteed to play on every device. AVI is useful when a playback system specifically requires that container or supports a codec commonly stored in it.

How to convert DOC to AVI

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1. Upload the DOC file on the converter page. Several files can be added for batch conversion; the page shows the per-file size limit.
2. Set show each page for to choose how long each document page appears.
3. Start the conversion, then download the AVI file when it is ready.

Offline with desktop software

A free workflow uses LibreOffice, Poppler’s pdftoppm utility, and FFmpeg. Install all three, then run these commands from a terminal in the folder containing input.doc:

mkdir work
libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf --outdir work input.doc
pdftoppm -png -r 150 work/input.pdf work/page
ffmpeg -framerate 1/5 -i work/page-%d.png -c:v mpeg4 -q:v 4 -pix_fmt yuv420p -r 25 output.avi

LibreOffice renders the DOC as a PDF, Poppler creates a PNG image for each page, and FFmpeg encodes the image sequence as AVI. The command displays each page for five seconds; change 1/5 to adjust the interval. LibreOffice and FFmpeg run on Windows, macOS, and Linux; Poppler is also available for those systems, though installation and terminal commands vary.

Quality and compatibility

Pages become images, so text cannot be selected or searched in the AVI. The -r 150 setting controls page-render resolution; raise it for small print, at the cost of larger image files and potentially larger video output. The example uses MPEG-4 video in an AVI container and creates no audio. Check the target device’s supported AVI codecs if it will not play the result.