Extract text from Doxygen documentation files (DOX)
To convert DOX documents to another format, you need Doxygen or other Developer software.
To convert other file formats to the "Documentation Generator File" file type, you need software like Doxygen or a similar tool.
The .DOX file format is primarily used as a documentation source file by Doxygen, a popular tool for generating software reference manuals. Developers use these files to store structured comments, configuration settings, and codebase metadata. Occasionally, a .DOX file might also be a misspelled Microsoft Word document (missing the 'C' in DOCX), an older MultiMate document, or a Visual Basic UserDocument.
The main disadvantage of a Doxygen .DOX file is that it is essentially raw, formatted text combined with system-specific configuration blocks. It is not meant for end-user reading. To view the documentation properly, you must compile it using the Doxygen engine. Sharing raw .DOX files with non-developers is often frustrating because they lack the required environment to parse them and will only see confusing markup.
Users typically need to convert .DOX files into accessible formats like HTML, PDF, or RTF. Doxygen handles this export natively. If the file is actually a typo of a Word document, you want to rename or convert it to DOCX.
Because Doxygen files rely heavily on local source code files to generate complete manuals, standard online converters often fail to process them. Doxygen is a specialized compiler, not a simple document viewer. Our analyzer will identify the underlying format. If it detects standard text or a valid Word Open XML archive under the hood, viewing and conversion are absolutely possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your DOX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted DOCX, DOC, PDF, JPEG, ODT, PPTX, TXT, ASD, JPG and ADOC files.
If you want to convert DOX file to TXT, RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, PAGES, TEX, LATEX, MD, MARKDOWN, LOG or NFO, you can use Doxygen or similar software from the "Documentation Source File" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert PDF, DOC, ASC, TODO, NFO, MEMO, README, DOCX, JPG, TXT, NOTE or RTF files to DOX, try Doxygen or another comparable tool in the "Documentation Source File" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our DOX converter.