Free tool · Text to flashcardsTurn a text into
vocabulary flashcards

What you download

The tool never adds a word, a meaning or a translation: everything in the files comes from your text and your taps.

Import the file into Anki

1. In Anki on a computer, choose File, then Import, and pick text-words-anki.csv.
2. Anki reads the settings lines at the top: a comma between fields, three columns and the tag lexpad-text on every note.
3. Choose a note type and a deck. With the Basic note type, map Word to Front and Sentence to Back, or keep the sentence on the front as a clue.
4. Choose Import. Add the meanings in Anki as you review.

The settings lines follow the Anki manual’s file headers, which Anki 2.1.54 and later read (Anki manual, text files). With bold on, the file uses HTML so the word stands out in its sentence.

Bring the words into Lexpad

• Copy and open in Lexpad copies the words, one per line, and opens Paste a list in Settings, Import & export. A new account gets the same box once its two languages are chosen. Paste, check the list, and tap Add N words⁠. Words already in the notebook are skipped and counted.
• Or import text-words-lexpad.csv with Import words⁠.
• The words arrive without meanings. Fill with AI writes the meanings, examples and pronunciation for all of them at once; the free plan has 25 AI cards a day (400 a month). Or write your own.

Inside Lexpad, Paste a text does the same as this page, and Words worth keeping (Pro) lets AI mark the expressions worth keeping for you, with their sentences. More: Words worth keeping and Paste a text.

Choosing words worth a card

• Tick a word you met, did not know, and would like to use or understand next time. Leave out names, and words you could guess at once.
• A short text read closely is worth more than a long one skimmed: ten words from a page you understood are easier to keep than fifty from one you did not.
• Keep the sentence: meeting a word again in the place you first saw it is a strong cue. The Anki file keeps it for you.

Picking words from what you read has a name: sentence mining. More on reading with a notebook: Remember new words from books and Save new words while reading online.

How this page reads your text

• It runs the same word splitter as Lexpad’s Paste a text, ported to this page: a word is a run of letters, so “well-known” and “don’t” stay whole; every different word is listed once, in the order you read it.
• Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Lao, Khmer and Burmese have no spaces between words, so your browser’s own word splitter (Intl.Segmenter) divides them. A browser that can only split Chinese or Japanese into single characters says so above the list.
• Capital letters do not make a second word (“The” and “the” are one), but accents do: “año” and “ano” are two words, as they are in a Lexpad notebook.
• No word is ticked to begin with, and nothing is suggested: you know which words you don’t know.
• Up to 2,000 different words are shown at once; paste a longer text in parts.
• Nothing is sent or saved: no upload, no cookies, no storage in the browser. Close the tab and the page forgets the text.