# Converting slideshow to text? **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions & Answers\ **Created:** [June 23, 2024, 5:26pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/converting-slideshow-to-text/2978 "2024-06-23T17:26:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JoeyEremondi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/joeyeremondi/32/1834_2.png) [@JoeyEremondi](https://racket.discourse.group/u/JoeyEremondi)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 5:26pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/converting-slideshow-to-text/2978/1 "2024-06-23T17:26:53Z")
Does anybody know if there's a way to get a text version of a `#lang slideshow` file? I'm eventually hoping to get the contents into org-mode so I can have a single file with my class's lecture notes, but just getting some kind of textual representation would help. I realize there are going to be visual things that don't translate directly, but I'm just looking to kickstart the process. ---
**Author:** ![bremner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@bremner](https://racket.discourse.group/u/bremner)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 12:31pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/converting-slideshow-to-text/2978/2 "2024-06-24T12:31:15Z")
Joey Eremondi via Racket Discourse [notifications@racket.discoursemail.com](mailto:notifications@racket.discoursemail.com) writes: > Does anybody know if there's a way to get a text version of a `#lang slideshow` file? I'm eventually hoping to get the contents into org-mode so I can have a single file with my class's lecture notes, but just getting some kind of textual representation would help. > > I realize there are going to be visual things that don't translate directly, but I'm just looking to kickstart the process. Since nobody replied yet, my first instinct is to output PDF, and then run it through a pdf to text converter (e.g. pdftotext from poppler-utils in Debian/Ubuntu). Hopefully someone has an approach that preserves more of the semantics, but since slideshow is a Turing complete markup language, that may be hard.