SRT to Plain Text
Extract dialogue from an SRT subtitle file. Timestamps, cue numbers and inline HTML tags are removed so you get a clean, readable transcript.
Local processing only. Your file is processed on your device. Nothing is uploaded.
Input SRT
Plain Text
How to extract text from SRT
- Paste SRT content or click Load .srt.
- Click Extract text.
- Copy the transcript or download it as .txt.
What gets removed
- Sequential cue numbers.
- Timestamp lines (
00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,000). - Inline HTML tags such as
<i>,<b>,<font>. - ASS override tags such as
{\an8}. - HTML entities are converted back to their plain characters.
Use cases
- Generate a readable transcript for a video summary.
- Feed subtitle dialogue into a translation memory or text analysis tool.
- Create a study aid from a film's dialogue.
- Copy script text out of an SRT file quickly.
Limitations
- Only text is extracted. Timestamps and cue context are lost.
- Speaker labels that were not encoded in the subtitle are not inferred.