PPT to Text Converter
Pull every word out of a PowerPoint deck into one plain text file, slide by slide, without opening PowerPoint. Useful for study notes, word counts, search archives and tools that only read text.
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Max 95 MB per file· Up to 20 files· Deleted after 30 minutes
Files are processed on our servers and deleted after 30 minutes.
150 DPI turns an A4 page into about 1240 × 1754 px. Use 300 for printing.
Convert the whole file or only some pages or slides (PDF and presentation input).
Pages or slides to convert, e.g. 1-3, 5, 8-10.
UTF-8 works for every language. Choose UTF-8 with BOM if Excel or Notepad on Windows shows garbled characters; legacy encodings only for old software.
LF for macOS, Linux and code editors; CRLF for older Windows programs such as classic Notepad.
Comma is standard. Use semicolon for Excel in countries that write decimals with a comma (Germany, France, Brazil).
Excel input with several sheets: convert all of them (one section or file per sheet) or only the first.
How to use this tool
- 1
Upload the deck
Add .ppt, .pptx, .pps, .odp or .key files, up to 20 at once and 95 MB each.
- 2
Choose the slides
Convert to is Plain text with Formatting on Text only. Leave Pages on All pages, or pick Page range and type something like 4-12 to skip the title and appendix slides.
- 3
Convert and read
Press Convert to Plain text and open the .txt in any editor, word counter or text-analysis tool.
Getting the text out of a PowerPoint deck
A slide deck hides its words well. In an old .ppt file the text lives in binary records inside a compound file, and in a .pptx it is split across one XML file per slide, ppt/slides/slide1.xml and onward, wrapped in shape and run tags. Neither is something you can open in Notepad and read.
Inside PowerPoint the obvious routes miss a lot. Outline view and Save As Outline/RTF only include text typed into the slide layout's title and body placeholders, so anything in a free text box, a table or a callout shape is skipped. Decks built from text boxes, which is most designed decks, come out nearly empty. Converting reads every text-bearing shape instead. For a deck you also want to keep editing in a current format, PPT to PPTX upgrades it first.
PPT to text: three ways compared
| UltKit | Save As Outline/RTF | Copy from Outline view | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titles and body placeholders | yes | yes | yes |
| Free text boxes and table cells | yes | no | no |
| Works without PowerPoint installed | yes | no | no |
| Choice of text encoding | yes | no | no |
| Only some slides | Slide range | no | Select by hand |
| Many decks at once | 20 per batch | One by one | One by one |
What ends up in the text file
- Slide order is kept
- Text follows the deck from the first slide to the last, or through the range you chose.
- Tables become lines
- Each table row is written as one line with its cells in order, so figures stay next to their labels.
- Pictures are skipped
- Photos, charts drawn as images and logos leave no text behind; switch on Include images to save them in a ZIP beside the TXT.
- Encoding is yours to set
- UTF-8 by default; UTF-8 with BOM or a legacy code page under Advanced settings if an older program reads the file.
PPT
Microsoft PowerPoint 97–2003 presentation
PPT is the binary presentation format used by PowerPoint from PowerPoint 97 until PPTX replaced it in 2007. It stores slides, images, notes and animations in a proprietary structure, and files tend to be larger than PPTX. Newer PowerPoint features cannot be saved in it. PowerPoint, LibreOffice and Google Slides still open PPT files.
- Compression
- –
- Transparency
- –
- Animation
- Yes
- Introduced
- 1997 · Microsoft
TXT
Plain text
A TXT file contains only plain characters with no formatting, fonts, images or layout. Modern text files are usually encoded in UTF-8, which covers every language, though older files may use other encodings and show garbled characters. Plain text is tiny, never becomes obsolete and opens on every device, from phones to servers. It cannot hold bold text, tables or pictures, so structure must be expressed with spacing or simple markup.
- Compression
- –
- Transparency
- –
- Animation
- –
- Introduced
- –
PowerPoint decks go to plain text when someone needs the wording without the design: a student turning lecture slides into revision notes, a translator counting words for a quote, or an archive indexing years of presentations for search.
Plain text is the most portable thing you can make from a deck: it opens on every device, pastes cleanly into a chat or learning platform, and stays readable decades from now. When the deck's layout matters as much as its words, keep a visual copy with PPTX to PDF next to the text file.
PPT to text questions
Is text inside pictures and screenshots on the slides extracted?
No. Text that is part of an image is pixels, not characters, and recognition with OCR scanned pages applies to PDF input only. Export those slides as images and run them through image to text to recover that wording.
Can I extract text from only a few slides?
Yes. Set Pages to Page range and enter the slide numbers, for example 1-3, 8. The numbers match the slide numbers PowerPoint shows in the thumbnail pane.
Does this work with PPTX and Keynote files too?
Yes. The same upload accepts .pptx, .ppsx, .odp and Keynote .key files alongside old .ppt decks, and all of them come out as plain text in the same way.
How do I count the words in a presentation?
Convert the deck to TXT and open it in Word, Google Docs or any word counter. The text file gives a count you can check line by line and share, for instance with a translator who quotes per word.
In what order does the text appear?
Slides are written in order, so the text of slide 3 follows slide 2. Within a slide the title comes first, then the remaining text boxes and tables from top to bottom.