Text Extraction From Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop To Notepad

Code Scripts to export text 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. 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?

To get into more details, read this medium article.

The Solution

Download this repository as a ZIP file and follow the below steps.

Exporting Text in Adobe Illustrator

1. Close Illustrator and extract the IllustratorTextExtractor.jsx file inside the Scripts folder.

   C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 2021\Presets\en_US\Scripts

2. Open up the Test.ai file and navigate to File/Scripts to execute the script.

   

Exporting Text in Adobe Photoshop

1. Close Photoshop and extract the PS_Bramus.TextExportWithUTF-1.3.jsx file inside the Scripts folder.

   C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2021\Presets\Scripts

2. Open up the Test.psd file and navigate to File/Scripts to execute the script.

   

Result

After a successful export, your text would pop up in Notepad. Change the text alignment from left to right to view the Urdu text correctly.

Fun Facts

Below are some interesting facts that you can try out.

1. To change the order of the text, switch the layer order.

   

2. Open up multiple files & export them within a single click shown in the below image.

   

3. Run the scripts with other languages by changing the file encoding; refer to the below snippet.

fileOut.encoding = "UTF-16"; // Change it to UTF-8 or UTF-32

Acknowledgment

Thanks to Bramus for sharing the script code on GitHub.