Convert EPUB to TXT.
A whole book as plain text — extracted on your own device.
Drop EPUB books here
or browse your files
Paste with ⌘V · or drop files anywhere on the page
Files never leave your device. Everything runs in your browser, nothing touches a server — tools you've used even work offline.
Extract the full text of an EPUB as a plain .txt file entirely in your browser — chapters in the book’s reading order, paragraphs and headings kept, all markup dropped. Nothing is uploaded; the book never leaves your device.
How it works
- Drop files anywhere on the page, click to browse, or paste with ⌘V.
- Pick a quality or preset — or set an exact target size and let the tool find it.
- Compress, compare before/after, and download — individually or as a ZIP.
How the text comes out
An EPUB is a ZIP of XHTML chapters plus a manifest that records their reading order (the spine). This tool opens the archive locally, follows container.xml to the book’s package file, and walks the spine so chapters land in the order you would read them — not the order they happen to sit in the ZIP. Each chapter is parsed with the browser’s own HTML engine, so entities, footnote markup and the odd unclosed tag all resolve cleanly.
Paragraphs, headings and list items become plain-text paragraphs separated by blank lines; scripts, styles and other invisible machinery are dropped. Tables and footnotes degrade gently — their text survives as plain lines. The result is one .txt file: ideal for full-text search, text-to-speech, word counts or feeding a book to other text tools.
What it won’t read
DRM-protected books are refused with a clear message — their chapters are encrypted and no browser tool can decrypt them. Image-only books (scans wrapped in an EPUB) are refused too, since there is no text layer to extract; for scans, OCR is the right tool. To make the book itself smaller instead of extracting from it, use Compress EPUB.
Frequently asked questions
Does the text come out in the right order?
Yes — chapters follow the EPUB spine, the same reading order your e-reader uses. If a book’s manifest is malformed, the tool falls back to the chapters in archive order rather than failing.
What happens to images, tables and footnotes?
Images are dropped (this is a text extractor). Tables and footnotes keep their text as plain lines — readable, if less pretty than the original layout.
Can it read DRM-protected books?
No. DRM encrypts the chapter files themselves, and the tool tells you so honestly instead of producing garbage. Books you own DRM-free extract completely.
Is it private?
Yes. Archives are built and converted entirely in your browser — neither the archive nor the files inside it are ever uploaded, and any password you set is applied locally. The server does nothing but deliver this page. Want proof? Run one file through, switch your connection off, and run another — it still works.