Turn any Vimeo video into text
Paste a link, pick a format, and get the full transcript — clean paragraphs, timestamped lines, or a downloadable subtitle file. Free, no sign-up.
Three steps, no setup
Paste any Vimeo, channel, or group link
Pick a format — paragraphs, timestamps, or SRT/VTT
Copy the text or download the file
Why you'd want a transcript
Note takers
Stop pausing and rewinding to write things down. Copy the transcript straight into your notes, or hand it to an AI tool to summarize while you do something else. Timestamped lines make it easy to cite exactly when a point was made.
Content creators
One video, several assets — show notes, a description summary, or pull-quotes for social. Working from the transcript is faster than re-scrubbing your own footage to find the line you want.
Pairing with AI tools
Paste the transcript into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI tool to generate summaries, key points, or a first draft. The text comes out clean — no caption artifacts to clean up first.
Built for pulling text out of video
A short film, a client review reel, a conference talk — if the video has a caption track, this pulls the text out. Whatever you're doing with it next, this covers the format you actually need.
| Six output formats | Paragraphs, plain text, timestamped lines, SRT, VTT, or raw JSON — pick whatever the next step needs. | |
| Works on any caption track | Pulls whichever caption track the uploader attached to the video, in its original language. | |
| Caption language field | Know the video has captions in a specific language? Set the code directly instead of relying on auto-detect. | |
| Seconds, not minutes | No watching, no scrubbing the timeline for a quote — the full text lands in one request. | |
| Download subtitles | Export as .srt or .vtt and drop it straight into a video editor or an HTML5 player. | |
| Free, no account | No sign-up, no watermark — rate-limited, not paywalled. | |
| Channels and groups too | A bare vimeo.com/ID link, a channel URL, or a group's /videos/ID link all resolve the same video. | |
| One honest limit | If a video has no caption track at all, no tool can recover text from it — including this one. Everything else is fair game. |