SRT to Text

Turn a subtitle file into clean readable text, with all the timings and numbering stripped out.

or drop it anywhere on this page

Nothing is uploaded

Your browser does the conversion. Open the network panel and watch: not one request is made while your file is read.

Every repair is shown

Stray tags, a byte order mark, timings that overlap. Where the file is fixed you are told what changed and how many times.

No account, no cap

No sign-up, no email, no file count, no watermark and no paid tier waiting behind the third conversion.

About this tool

SRT to Text runs entirely inside your browser, so your file is never uploaded anywhere.

Questions

Is it really free?

Yes, and there is no catch waiting further down. No account, no email, no file count, no size cap, no watermark, and no paid tier that unlocks the one feature you actually wanted. Your own computer does the work, so there is no cost for us to pass on to you.

How long does it take?

It finishes before you can read this answer. There is no upload step and no queue, because the conversion happens inside the page you already have open.

Do you keep my file?

We never receive it. That distinction is worth being precise about, because most tools in this category upload your file to a server and then promise to delete it afterwards. Here there is no upload at all, so there is no copy to delete, nothing to leak, and nothing anyone could ask us to hand over.

How do I check that for myself?

Open your browser's developer tools, switch to the network panel, and convert a file. You will see the page load, and then nothing further. That is the entire claim, and you do not have to take our word for it.

What is the repair log for?

Subtitle files in the wild are frequently a little malformed. A file may carry a byte order mark, leftover styling tags, cues that overlap each other, or timings that run before zero. Where something is corrected the log names it and counts it, so you always know what changed. A file that needed nothing says so.

Which formats can I put in?

SRT, WebVTT, SBV, ASS and SSA, LRC, and plain text carrying timestamps. The format is detected from the contents rather than the file extension, so a mislabelled file still works.

Does it work offline?

Once the page has loaded, yes. Disconnect from the internet and the tools keep working, because everything they need is already sitting in your browser.

Is there a file size limit?

Only what your browser can hold in memory, which for subtitle files is far past anything realistic. A feature length film's subtitles run to a few hundred kilobytes.

Can I use this for commercial work?

Yes. There is no licence to buy and no attribution required. The output is your file.

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