PowerPoint to text
Drop in a lecture deck and get every slide as plain text — including the speaker notes, which is usually where the lecturer actually explained the thing.
Why the speaker notes matter
Slides are bullet points. The notes pane underneath is where the lecturer wrote the sentences those bullets stand for — the definition, the worked example, the thing that will be on the exam. Most converters throw it away. This keeps it, labelled per slide, so you can revise from what was actually said rather than from six words and an arrow.
Slides stay in order
Inside a .pptx, slides are files named slide1.xml,
slide2.xml, slide10.xml. Sorted as text, slide 10
lands between 1 and 2, which quietly shuffles any deck longer than nine
slides. These are sorted numerically, so a 60-slide lecture comes out in the
order it was given.
Old .ppt files
The pre-2007 .ppt format is a completely different container —
not a zip, not XML — and cannot be read here. Open it in PowerPoint, Keynote
or Google Slides and save as .pptx, then drop it in.
Slide 12 — Define osmosis and give one example in plant cells.
- • movement of water
- • semi-permeable membrane
- • turgor pressure
An illustration of the extension, not a screenshot of this page.
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Questions
- Is my deck uploaded?
- No. A .pptx is a zip file, and your browser can already open zip files — so it is unpacked and read on your machine. There is no server here to send it to.
- Does it get text out of images on the slides?
- No. Text inside a picture is pixels, not text. The extension can read those from a screenshot; this page reads only real text.
- What about Google Slides?
- File → Download → Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx), then drop that in. Google Slides files are not files on your computer until you export them.
- Will it keep my formatting?
- No, and deliberately — this gives you plain text to revise, search or paste into a flashcard maker. Bold and colours are dropped.