Extract Text
Get all slide text in one place — copy to clipboard or download as plain text.
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Uses for extracted presentation text
Slide text extraction has a straightforward use case: you have a deck and you need its content as plain text. Maybe you are feeding it into a summary tool, checking it for compliance language, searching for a phrase across many presentations, or handing it off to a translator.
The extractor parses the DrawingML text elements in each slide's XML, groups them by paragraph, and outputs them labelled by slide number. The result is a clean text file with no formatting artifacts — just the words as they appeared in the slides.
Because the processing is entirely client-side, you can run it on presentations containing sensitive internal data without the content ever leaving your machine.
Frequently asked questions
Are my files uploaded when extracting text?
No. The text extraction runs entirely in your browser. The PPTX is opened in memory, the slide XML is parsed locally, and results are displayed in the page — nothing is sent to a server.
Does the extracted text preserve slide structure?
Text is grouped by slide and labelled with the slide number. Within each slide, text runs are collected and grouped by paragraph. The order follows the order of text elements in the slide XML, which generally matches the visual reading order but may differ for complex multi-column layouts.
Are speaker notes included in the extracted text?
No. The extractor reads only the slide content XML (ppt/slides/slideN.xml). Speaker notes are stored in separate notesSlide files and are not included in the extraction output.
What text is not extracted?
Text embedded inside images, text rendered by chart data labels, and WordArt stored as paths rather than text elements will not appear in the output. Only plain DrawingML text runs (<a:t> elements) are captured.
Can I download the result?
Yes. After extraction, use the "Download .txt" button to save the full text as a plain text file, or "Copy all" to copy it to your clipboard.