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Download your YouTube transcript as a PDF
There is now a Download PDF button for the YouTube to Transcript tool. A single click generates a clean and formatted PDF document that's timestamped and captioned for sharing, archiving and annotation.
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PelicanTools is now available in Portuguese
All site tools, faqs, navigation and SEO pages has been completely translated to Portuguese, located at /pt.
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A thamble grabber, not a heist film.
Quick tip on what our YouTube thumbnail tool does, and where to find it.
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More caption languages for YouTube transcripts — and clearer errors when one is missing
The YouTube to Transcript and YouTube to Article tools now include many more Asian and regional Chinese caption codes, and the API returns a short message listing languages that actually exist on the video.
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End-to-end technical flow of video repurposing for solo creators
Technical Q&A for ingestion, transcription, structuring, scoring, clip generation, rendering, publishing and SEO for video repurposing tools.
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How transcription systems work
A technical and descriptional deep dive on transcription systems.
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This is the Pelican Tools blog.
Short updates on new utilities, tips for creators, and how we think about simple, fast tools on the web.
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