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DjVu to TXT Converter

Extract the text of a DjVu book online, free and right in your browser: your books are never uploaded. You get one plain text file with the whole book, in any language.

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  • No upload
  • No sign-up
  • Any language
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Your files never leave your device: everything happens in your browser.
How to convert DjVu to TXT

How to convert DjVu to TXT

  1. 1

    Choose your DjVu files

    Drop one or more .djvu or .djv files on the page, or click Choose files. Choose whether to mark page breaks.

  2. 2

    Wait a moment

    The book's text is read right in your browser. Even books with hundreds of pages take only a second or two.

  3. 3

    Download the TXT

    Click Download TXT. The text file opens in Notepad, TextEdit, Word, Google Docs or any other app.

Why use this DjVu to TXT converter

No upload

Your books never leave your device. Nothing is sent to a server or stored anywhere.

Any language

Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese, Arabic and every other script come out correctly, saved as UTF-8.

Fast

The text is read straight from the book, with no text recognition to wait for: whole books take seconds.

Ready to copy and edit

Plain text works everywhere: paste quotes into notes, search it, translate it or feed it to other tools.

Works on any device

Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebook, iPhone, iPad and Android: all you need is a recent browser.

Free, no limits

No sign-up, no watermark, no ads, and no limit on file size or number of books.

Where does the text come from?

Many DjVu books carry a hidden text layer under the scanned pages: the text that was recognised when the book was scanned. It's what lets you search a DjVu book and copy text from it. This converter saves that text layer as a plain .txt file.

Because the text was recognised by software, it can contain mistakes, especially in old scans, formulas and tables. Line breaks follow the printed page. Some DjVu files have no text layer at all; their pages are only pictures, and this tool will tell you so.

To keep the pages as they look, use the DjVu to PDF converter: the PDF keeps the same searchable text. To read the book, open it in our free online DjVu viewer.

DjVu to TXT: questions and answers

Yes. There's no sign-up, watermark or limit, because the conversion runs on your own device instead of our servers.

No. The converter runs in your browser, so your books never leave your device. You can even disconnect from the internet once the page has loaded.

Some DjVu files hold only pictures of the pages, without a text layer. There's no text to extract from them; that would need OCR (text recognition), which this tool doesn't do. You can check in our online DjVu viewer: if search finds nothing, the book has no text.

Yes. The text is saved as UTF-8, which holds every script. If an old program shows strange characters, open the file in a recent app or choose UTF-8 when opening it.

The text layer was made by text recognition software when the book was scanned, and the converter saves it exactly as it is. Old or poor scans, formulas and tables often have mistakes.

With Page numbers, a line like --- 12 --- marks where each page starts, so you can find a quote in the book. Choose None for one continuous text.

Open this page in Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, drop your DjVu file on it and click Download TXT. There's nothing to install, and it works the same way on Linux and Chromebook.

Convert the book to TXT, then open the text file in Word or Google Docs and save it as a document. The text comes without the page layout and pictures.

Yes: this converter works in Safari on iPhone. To copy a passage while reading, see how to copy text from DjVu on iPhone.

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