Convert GIF to TXT

Convert GIF to TXT to take the wording off a picture and get it as lines. Useful when a manual or a conversation survives only as a GIF.

What happens when you convert GIF to TXT

Recognised lines go into a text file, and the picture itself stays out of the result. The placement of the wording is not kept: captions that sat side by side on the picture end up one under another in the file.

GIF holds a limited palette, so small type on it often comes with grainy edges and reads worse than the same text on a PNG screenshot. Large wording and captions on a plain background read well.

• Wording from the picture comes out as plain text lines.
• Block placement and styling are not preserved.
• With no readable text there is no file: the conversion ends with an error.

How to convert GIF to TXT

1. Upload your file in GIF.
2. Select TXT as the result format.
3. Start the conversion.
4. Download the text file and check the lines.

When the text stayed inside a GIF

• Move an error message sent as a screen animation into a ticket.
• Gather captions from a tutorial GIF into the text of a manual.
• Pull the terms out of an old banner saved in GIF.
• Find a particular phrase across an archive of pictures from a chat.
• Hand captions from a diagram to an editor without retyping them.

Other options for GIF files

• An animation for a website gets lighter with the GIF to WebP converter.
• A single uncompressed frame comes from the GIF to BMP converter.
• Text from a screenshot is better taken with the PNG to TXT converter.

FAQ

What about an animation?

The wording is read from an image rather than a sequence of frames, so the outcome for an animation is unpredictable. Save the frame you need as a separate picture and upload that.

Why did the wording read worse than from a screenshot?

GIF has a limited palette, and the edges of small letters come out grainy. If the same picture exists in PNG, use it.

Does the image itself go into the file?

No, TXT keeps lines only. Save the picture separately.