From Word to journal-ready LaTeX

Tools like Pandoc do a remarkable job translating .docx to .tex, but the output lands you in raw LaTeX: if something converted oddly — a table, a nested list, an equation — you are debugging markup you may not know. The missing step is a place to see and fix the converted document before it becomes LaTeX source.

KlarTeX uses Pandoc for the heavy lifting, then opens the result in a visual editor so the review step happens with rendered content instead of source code.

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   Import your .docx

   On the New Document page, switch to the Import tab and upload your Word file. Markdown, HTML, EPUB, Jupyter notebooks, OpenDocument, RTF, and even existing LaTeX files or projects work the same way.
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   Review the converted document

   Headings become numbered sections, lists and tables carry over, and the text is immediately editable. Give equations and complex tables a quick pass — Word's equation format converts in most cases, but complex math deserves review, and the equation editor makes fixes quick.
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   Rebuild the bibliography properly

   Word citations typically arrive as plain text. Import your references from Mendeley, Semantic Scholar, or a .bib file and re-insert them as real citations, so the exported LaTeX gets a proper BibTeX bibliography instead of hard-coded text.
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   Export LaTeX or PDF

   Download a complete LaTeX project (ZIP with .tex sources, bibliography, and images) for the journal's submission system, or compile straight to PDF in the cloud to see the typeset result.

The import is not a one-way ticket to LaTeX source. You can keep drafting in the visual editor — with real-time collaboration and inline comments for co-authors — and export fresh LaTeX whenever a submission or revision is due. New to this workflow? Start with writing a paper without knowing LaTeX.