Extract plain text from SRT
Pull the dialogue out of a subtitle file into plain text, with the timing and numbering removed. Handy for writing copy, taking notes, or getting a quote from a translation agency.
Accepts .srt and .vtt up to 5 MB. Exports UTF-8 plain text that you can paste straight into any editor.
The file is never uploaded — everything runs locally in your browser
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Can I use the extracted text as copy right away?
You can, but keep in mind that subtitles are a spoken-word script — the line breaks follow the rhythm of speech, not the logic of a sentence. Turn on “Merge into a single paragraph” first, then re-paragraph and polish it yourself; only then does it read like an article instead of a pile of fragments.
Why does the line count go down when I turn on dedupe?
Dedupe matches whole lines exactly and merges identical ones into one. In spoken delivery, words like “okay”, “right” or “and then” come back again and again; after dedupe you can see much more clearly how many distinct points were actually made.
Which number should I quote to a translation agency?
Quote the character count or the word count of the extracted text, not the number of cues. Agencies price by volume, so quoting by cue count either gets you lowballed or causes confusion. Merge into one paragraph first, then count characters — that is the closest thing to the real workload.