PDF → Plain text
Free, anonymous conversion from PDF (.pdf) to Plain text (.txt). Your file is destroyed automatically after the download window.
Drop a screenplay here, or choose a file. Fountain, Final Draft FDX, plain text, DOCX and text-layer PDF.
Free limits: one file per conversion, 15 MB max, about 200 pages, 5 conversions per day. Files are processed on the server and destroyed automatically — nothing is kept.
What survives this conversion
- industry-standard presentation: fixed layout, Courier pages, ready to share and print
- explicit page breaks and page numbers
What can be lost
- no emphasis, notes, sections, synopses or dual dialogue
- formatting is convention (uppercase cues, indentation) rather than markup
Every conversion includes an honest report listing anything that could not translate — you see it before downloading.
How this pair works
Your PDF file is parsed into a canonical screenplay model (by verified content, not just the file extension), then rendered as Plain text. Plain text background: Plain-text screenplays predate every screenwriting app — typed layouts on fixed-width printers are the format’s ancestors.