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How To Export Text From Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop To Notepad?
A Short Tutorial on Text Extraction From Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop Into Notepad.
THE PROBLEM
As a graphic designer, during extensive typing work, there comes a time when you want to copy-paste a large pile of text from the layers or artboard. It is indeed a massive, time-consuming job to manually copy each word or sentence layer by layer. So you might wonder how would you:
- Keep yourself relaxed while typing.
- Extract out all the text within just a few clicks.
- Automatically save the extracted text in a notepad file.
THE RESEARCH
Chris Pine, a programmer, once said,
“Programming isn’t about what you know; it’s about what you can figure out.” — Chris Pine¹
I was also facing the same problem, so I searched for any scripted code on Google. Luckily, I found a ready-made 21 years old script written by Bramus, a Freelance Web Developer from Belgium. I followed the steps he defined in his blog PS_BRAMUS.TextConvert: PSD2TXT and TXT2PSD for the masses², and the script worked perfectly for Adobe Photoshop.
