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    Free PowerPoint to Text

    Free text pulls from decks you cannot upload. Slide copy and speaker notes come out locally for scripts, captions or search.

    • Looks paidActually free
    • No uploadRuns on your device
    • No accountNothing to sign up for
    • No watermarkYour file, untouched

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    Your files never leave your device

    Free to use, with no account, no usage limit and no watermark, because the work runs on your device rather than on our servers.

    This is not a promise about how carefully we handle your upload. There is no upload. The file you choose is read into memory by your own browser, processed there, and handed back as a download — the tool has no server component and makes no network request with your data.

    • Nothing is stored. We never receive the file, so there is no copy to retain, no retention period to disclose, and nothing to delete on request.
    • Nothing is transmitted. No upload endpoint, no analytics payload carrying file contents, no third-party processor.
    • You can verify it. Load this page, disconnect from the internet, and use the tool. It still works, because everything it needs is already on your machine.
    • Nothing persists after you close the tab. Files are held in page memory only — not in local storage, not in a cache, not in a database.

    A note on wording, because it matters: we do not describe these tools as “encrypted.” Encryption protects data that travels to somebody else's computer. Your file does not travel, so there is nothing to encrypt and nothing to intercept — which is a stronger guarantee than encryption, not a weaker one. The page itself is served over HTTPS like the rest of the site.

    This makes the tools safe for material you are contractually barred from uploading to third-party services — client footage under NDA, unreleased campaign assets, anything covered by a confidentiality clause.

    How it works

    1. 1. Drop your .pptx

      Decks up to 200 MB and 300 slides are unzipped in your browser; a .ppt must be re-saved as .pptx first.

    2. 2. Choose speaker notes

      Tick or untick Include speaker notes and the slide text is extracted again, one block per slide.

    3. 3. Download the .txt

      Copy from the preview box or save a .txt file named after your deck.

    Questions

    Why can it read a .pptx but not a .ppt?

    They are entirely different formats that share a name. A .pptx is an Open Packaging Convention archive, a ZIP of XML parts that can be opened and read directly. The older .ppt is a proprietary binary format with no such structure. Re-saving as .pptx from PowerPoint or Keynote makes it readable.

    Is text from images on the slides included?

    No. Only real text runs are extracted. Words that are part of a picture, such as a screenshot, a chart exported as an image or a logo, are pixels rather than text and would need optical character recognition to read.

    How is the text laid out in the .txt file?

    Each slide gets its own block headed --- Slide 1 ---, --- Slide 2 --- and so on, in the deck's presentation order, with every paragraph on its own line. Hidden slides are marked (hidden) and an empty slide shows (no text). With Include speaker notes ticked, each slide's own notes follow under a [Speaker notes] label.

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