Build Course Materials From Your Ebooks
Pull passages, quotes, and excerpts from textbook ebooks into slides, handouts, and discussion prompts.
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100% Local Processing
Works with Kindle Cloud Reader
97% OCR Accuracy
Why Is Pulling Quotes So Slow?
A 50-minute class needs three good passages, two discussion questions, and a slide. The typing alone eats your prep block.
TextMuncher extracts text from textbook ebooks so teachers and professors can build course materials, pull discussion passages, and turn excerpts into slides and handouts. The browser extension captures Kindle Cloud Reader pages automatically with 97% OCR accuracy; screenshots from VitalSource and other academic platforms can be uploaded to textmuncher.com for the same OCR. Reclaim your prep time for actual teaching.
Textbook Platforms Block Copy
Pearson, McGraw-Hill, and Cengage readers disable copy-paste. Pulling a single quote for a slide takes longer than writing the slide itself.
Prep Time Is Already Tight
You teach four sections. You grade. You meet with students. Manual transcription competes with the work that actually helps students learn.
Updating Slides Is Painful
Changed editions or new readings mean retyping passages from scratch. The tool should make iteration easy, not punishing.
How TextMuncher Helps With Course Prep
Quotes for Slides in Seconds
Capture the passage, paste into Google Slides or Keynote with proper citation. Move on to the lesson design.
Discussion Prompts From Real Text
Drop a chapter into Claude and ask it to generate three Socratic questions grounded in the source. Edit, don't start from scratch.
Local Processing
OCR runs in your browser. No upload to a third party, which matters when textbook content is licensed to your institution.
How It Works
Three steps. No technical knowledge required.
1. Install TextMuncher
Add to Chrome in 10 seconds. No account required.
2. Open Your Textbook
Kindle Cloud Reader gets automated capture. On VitalSource, RedShelf, Pearson, McGraw-Hill, or Cengage, screenshot the pages yourself.
3. Build Your Materials
Drop extracted text into slides, handouts, an LMS, or AI tools for prompt generation.
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Can I use this to build assignments from textbook chapters?
Yes. Teachers commonly extract passages for guided reading questions, build cloze-style worksheets from text, and pull quotes for assessment items. The text is yours to work with for your own classroom use.
Does this work with publisher courseware like Pearson MyLab?
Via the manual path: screenshot the ebook reading sections and upload them to textmuncher.com for OCR. Interactive assessment widgets are not extractable, just the textbook text. The same applies to Connect, MindTap, and similar platforms.
How do I cite extracted text properly in my materials?
Cite the source as you would normally (author, title, edition, page). TextMuncher does not change the citation; it just speeds up getting the words from the page to your document. Always verify direct quotes against the source.
Is using AI to generate discussion questions appropriate for teaching?
AI-assisted prep is increasingly common. The pattern that works: extract a passage, ask AI for question ideas, then revise heavily based on your knowledge of the class. AI gives you a starting point, not a finished plan.
Will this work on a school-issued Chromebook?
Yes, TextMuncher runs in any Chromium-based browser. Some schools restrict extension installation, in which case you'd need to use the website upload flow with screenshots taken manually.
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