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TXT

Plain Text

Plain text with no formatting, no structure and no metadata — just characters and line breaks. It is the only format guaranteed to be readable in fifty years, which is why it remains the target for extraction from every richer format.

Extensions: .txt .text
MIME type: text/plain

01 Convert TXT to something else

TXT to PDF Re-wraps to the page rather than cutting long lines off.

02 Convert something else to TXT

SRT to TXT Joins cues into paragraphs instead of dumping fragments.
VTT to TXT Turns a caption track into prose you can actually read.
ASS to TXT Pulls the script out of a typeset subtitle file.
PDF to TXT Reassembles paragraphs instead of dumping one line per row.

03 Related formats

Markdown

Opening a .txt file

If you landed here because something handed you a .txt file and nothing on your machine will open it, converting it to a format you already have a reader for is usually faster than installing new software. Every conversion above runs in this browser — the file is not uploaded, so it works on a locked-down work machine and on a file you are not allowed to send anywhere.