Free Online EPUB to TXT Converter
Convert EPUB to TXT online for free.
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Checking files and selected output formats.
EPUB to TXT: everything except the words
This strips the EPUB down to its text content and discards the rest: images, fonts, styling, tables, footnote links, and the spine that defined reading order. The result is the words in document order and nothing else. It is a deliberately destructive conversion, and that is usually the point.
Convert when you want to search, diff or process the text, feeding it to a script, counting words, or pulling quotes. Never convert this way to read the book; everything that made it readable is what gets removed.
EPUB vs TXT: Side-by-side
Technical comparison of the two formats, useful for deciding which to use, or for confirming what changes during conversion.
| Property | EPUB | TXT |
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Electronic Publication | Plain Text |
| Year introduced | 2007 | 1963 |
| Developer / standard body | W3C (formerly IDPF) | ANSI / IBM |
| MIME type | application/epub+zip | text/plain |
| File extension | .epub | .txt |
| Compression | ZIP-compressed XHTML + CSS | None |
| Color / data depth | N/A | N/A |
| Max dimensions / size | Software-limited | Unlimited |
| Transparency | No | No |
| Animation | No | No |
| Standard / specification | W3C EPUB 3.3 / ISO/IEC 23736 | ASCII / Unicode |
| Best for | Apple Books, Kobo, Nook, Google Play Books, reflowable text | Code, raw data, universal compatibility |