How to extract text from video online

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Whyextract text from video online?

You can get the most out of your videos by reusing the audio content as text. Doing this lets you send a meeting resume as text in case you are converting a Zoom call, or you can add subtitles to a music or gaming video or you can even add that text as a description to a YouTube video. Doing any of these will increase the likelihood of your content being consumed and for your reach to get higher. Extracting text from video online with a tool like Flixier is great because you take advantage of cloud powered AI audio to text transcription which offers high accuracy, doesn’t require any processing power from your computer and it is also super fast. As an additional bonus when you transcribe video to text with Flixier you don’t need to install any software, in this way you avoid time consuming downloads and you don’t use any of your computer’s hardware with slow and hard to use software. If you wanted to use the extracted text as a subtitle and mute the video, that is also super easy to do with Flixier, and super helpful in case you want to replace the original sound with a different one.You can extract text from videos online with Flixier in three easy steps:

1. Add your files to Flixier

First you need to add your video files to the Flixier media library. You can do this in a variety of ways from uploading video files from your computer, to copying videos directly from Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive to just pasting a YouTube link or importing from Zoom or even Twitch.

2. Extract the text from video

Now that the files are in the Flixier library you need to drag and drop them on the timeline. Here you can press the Start button under Generate Auto Subtitle on the right side of the screen. This step will process your video and add a subtitle Track to your video.

3. Download the text

With the text ready you can just press the download button and save the file in .txt format, this format will let you easily edit it in any text processing tool like Google Docs or Microsoft Word. You can also choose to export your video with the newly added subtitle and post it on social media, YouTube or download it locally to your computer.