Word doc cleaning

I have been trying to parse word docs for use with llama3.1:8b in Ollama. I only need the text - Even if I cut and past into a text editor weird characters seem to stick around which break llama/Ollama. If I use regular expressions to remove every non-asci character it works, but that's not practical. I tried setting up open WebUI and setting apache tika to process the docs, but it's not working. What would you recommend? I'm open to changing tools . Basically if any of these characters are still in the file, I get gibberish output. Any suggestions appreciated! submitted by /u/No_Photograph_333 [link] [comments]

Source: r/ollama | 2026-08-10