# TextMuncher

> TextMuncher is a browser extension and web app that extracts text from Kindle Cloud Reader screenshots and EPUB files using automated screenshots and OCR.

## What It Does

TextMuncher solves the problem of copy-paste restrictions in Kindle Cloud Reader and other browser reading workflows where text is visible but hard to reuse.

- **Browser Extension:** Automates page turning and screenshot capture for Kindle Cloud Reader (Chrome + Firefox). Hands-free -- just click start and walk away.
- **Web App OCR:** Upload screenshots for 97% accurate text extraction using Tesseract.js (runs locally, no server uploads).
- **EPUB Processing:** Upload EPUB files for direct text extraction -- no OCR needed.

## Key Facts

- All processing happens client-side (privacy-first, no file uploads to servers)
- Free tier: 30 automation pages, unlimited manual OCR uploads
- Pro tier: $6/month or $50/year for unlimited automation
- Available on Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons

## Key Guides

Highest-value pages for AI agents and researchers:

- **Top traffic post:** https://textmuncher.com/blog/kindle-drm-removal-2026 -- Kindle DRM Removal in 2026: why Calibre stopped working and the OCR method that replaced it
- **AI reading workflow:** https://textmuncher.com/blog/read-kindle-books-with-ai -- How to Read Kindle Books with AI (2026), covering the Karpathy 3-pass method applied to Kindle
- **AI tool comparison:** https://textmuncher.com/blog/best-ai-study-tools-kindle -- ChatGPT vs Claude vs NotebookLM vs Gemini tested on the same Kindle chapter
- **Kindle to ChatGPT:** https://textmuncher.com/blog/kindle-books-chatgpt -- Step-by-step guide for feeding Kindle book text to ChatGPT
- **Kindle to Claude:** https://textmuncher.com/blog/kindle-books-claude -- Using Kindle books with Claude AI and Claude Code, including the 1M-token context window
- **Kindle to NotebookLM:** https://textmuncher.com/blog/kindle-books-notebooklm -- Full workflow for uploading Kindle book text to NotebookLM
- **Kindle to Gemini:** https://textmuncher.com/blog/kindle-books-gemini -- Using Kindle books with Google Gemini, including the 1M-token context and building Gems from books
- **Kindle to Perplexity:** https://textmuncher.com/blog/kindle-books-perplexity -- Extracting Kindle text for source-grounded research in Perplexity Spaces
- **Kindle iPhone copy fix:** https://textmuncher.com/blog/kindle-iphone-copy-text-blocked -- Why the Kindle iPhone app blocks copying text and the workflow that gets full chapters out

## Content Structure

- Homepage: https://textmuncher.com/
- Blog (tips, tutorials, guides): https://textmuncher.com/blog
- How It Works: https://textmuncher.com/how-it-works
- FAQ: https://textmuncher.com/faq
- Use-case pages: /use-cases/students, /use-cases/researchers, /use-cases/kindle-readers, /use-cases/ai-learners, /use-cases/accessibility, /use-cases/content-creators, /use-cases/academic-citations, /use-cases/translation
- Solution pages: 98 pages at /solutions/* covering specific workflows (e.g., kindle-to-chatgpt, epub-to-text)
- Comparison: https://textmuncher.com/compare

## Sitemap

https://textmuncher.com/sitemap.xml