Make copied text ready to be read aloud by any voice: broken lines joined, page numbers and footnotes gone, abbreviations and numbers spelled the way a narrator says them.
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Next: narrate it with Text to Audiobook or EPUB to Audiobook.
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How to use it
Text copied from a PDF, a manuscript or a web page, or a TXT, Markdown, DOCX or EPUB file.
Every fix is listed with examples: broken lines, page numbers, headers, footnotes, abbreviations, numbers.
Keep what you need. The clean text updates as you go.
Paste it into any text-to-speech tool, or narrate it here.
| Before | Read aloud as |
|---|---|
| Mr. Penrose met Dr. Hale on St. Agnes | Mister Penrose met Doctor Hale on Saint Agnes |
| It cost £4.50, 3% more | It cost four pounds and fifty pence, three percent more |
| since 1984, on the 21st | since nineteen eighty-four, on the twenty-first |
| the tow-↵er | the tower |
| The tower was old.¹ | The tower was old. |
FAQ
Voices read what they see. Text from a PDF breaks mid-sentence at every line, says “twelve” at every page number, repeats the book’s title from every header, and reads footnote numbers aloud. Abbreviations and numbers are often read wrongly too: “St.” can be Saint or Street, “1984” should be a year.
Only what a voice would get wrong. Every change is counted and shown with examples, and each kind of change can be turned off.
Lines like “Page 12”, “— 12 —” and lowercase roman numerals are page numbers. A bare number counts only when they recur every page or so; a lone “IV” or “3” before a long chapter is kept.
Paste text you’ve copied from a PDF and it fixes what copying breaks. To turn a whole PDF into audio, PDF to audiobook reads the file itself: it knows where the headers, page numbers and footnotes sit on the page, and narrates the result.
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