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Contributor files in.
Layout-ready stories out.

Get clean text and named photos from Word files, PDFs, and pasted email.

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StoryExtract screenshot: a story's photos with layout-ready filenames, captions and credits

IN.docxPDFPasted text + photos

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OUTPlain textNamed photosZIP per storyZIP per issue

From inbox to layout

Three steps. One place for the story.

Add files.

Drop Word files and PDFs, or paste a story with photos.

StoryExtract screenshot: files dragged onto an issue, which turns Word files and PDFs into stories and adds photos to the issue

Check the story.

Compare text and photos with the source. Edit names and captions.

StoryExtract screenshot: a story open for review, with clean production text and tools to join paragraphs, split paragraphs and clean spacing

Download.

Get one story, the selected stories, or the full issue as a ZIP.

Check the output before publication. Paper Tools does not copyedit text or verify facts.

Made for production

Less file wrangling. More time for the next issue.

Hyphen fix

The dictionary joins words that the PDF split at the line end.

Photo extraction

Embedded photos keep their original bytes and dimensions.

Names, captions, credits

Give each photo a layout-ready filename before download.

Publications and issues

Keep each issue in its own folder for 30 days.

Background jobs

With the processing queue enabled, large files continue after you close the page.

One ZIP per issue

Send the full issue to layout in one download.

A home for every issue

Your publication.
Your issue.
Everything together.

Keep stories and photos with the issue they belong to. Open a publication, choose an issue, and find the work for that edition.

Create a free account to save stories for 30 days.

StoryExtract screenshot: the Town News publication with its issues in a folder tree, and the November 12 issue open with story and photo tiles

Your production toolkit

Two tools. A smoother deadline.

StoryExtract

Turn contributor files into clean text and named photos. Keep the stories for each issue together and download the files for layout.

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Newspaper editors
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Production staff
Designers
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