Getting text out for read-aloud
Export an EPUB to TXT and import it into a narration or audiobook app, with the chapter breaks already marked.
Guide
EPUB conversion is about taking an ebook apart so you can use the pieces. A .epub file is really a packaged bundle of web pages: the tool unpacks it in the browser, reads the book title, author and spine order out of the OPF manifest, and parses every chapter into structured blocks — headings, paragraphs, images. The chapter list sits on the left and a preview of the selected chapter on the right (cut off after 4,000 characters), and then the whole book is exported: TXT for a reader or a read-aloud app, Markdown that keeps the heading hierarchy, or a PDF with the illustrations in place, reflowed to A4 with optional page numbers.
Updated 2026-09-094 min read
EPUB conversion is about taking an ebook apart so you can use the pieces. A .epub file is really a packaged bundle of web pages: the tool unpacks it in the browser, reads the book title, author and spine order out of the OPF manifest, and parses every chapter into structured blocks — headings, paragraphs, images. The chapter list sits on the left and a preview of the selected chapter on the right (cut off after 4,000 characters), and then the whole book is exported: TXT for a reader or a read-aloud app, Markdown that keeps the heading hierarchy, or a PDF with the illustrations in place, reflowed to A4 with optional page numbers.
It handles .epub only, and only without DRM — an encrypted ebook bought from a store will not open.
<original-name>.pdf, <original-name>.txt and <original-name>.md.| Input | Output | Notes |
|---|---|---|
novel.epub, 42 chapters, export TXT |
Starts with “Book Title — Author: …” and separates each chapter with “════ Chapter name ════” | Good for importing into a read-aloud or reading app |
| The same book as Markdown | # Title, > Author: …, ## Chapter headings; each illustration becomes *[image]* |
Markdown does not embed pictures |
| An illustrated non-fiction book as PDF | A4 layout, graded headings, illustrations scaled to the text column | Up to 150 images are unpacked |
*[image]* placeholder.Export an EPUB to TXT and import it into a narration or audiobook app, with the chapter breaks already marked.
Export Markdown and excerpt it chapter by chapter in a notes app, with the heading levels already in place.
Read the exported A4 PDF on a device that cannot open EPUB, illustrations included.
Ebooks bought from a store usually carry DRM encryption that a browser cannot decrypt, and this tool will not try to break it. Only a DRM-free .epub can be processed.
The Markdown export writes each illustration as a *[image]* placeholder and does not carry the image files. Export the PDF instead when you need the pictures — it scales them into the page.
It means the chapter's HTML has no heading element, so the tool falls back to a sequence number. The text itself is unaffected; the Markdown and PDF exports use that name as the chapter heading.
The EPUB is unpacked, parsed and converted in the browser, and the book content is never uploaded to any server; the data leaves memory when the page is closed.
Updated 2026-09-09
Unpack an e-book into chapters and convert to TXT, Markdown or PDF (headings and illustrations kept)
Unpacked locally, extracting chapter text and illustrations in table-of-contents order