Extract all of the text in your diagram

This plugin should be used as-is, as an unsupported example for developers.

Use the text plugin to extract all of the text in your diagram, including labels in shapes and on connectors, table cells, fields in container shapes such as entity relationship shapes, and text fields.

Use the text plugin to extract all of the text in your diagram quickly and easily

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Load the text plugin

Permanently load the plugin

If you want to always use the text plugin, add it to the plugins list so it will be loaded each time you create or edit a diagram.

  1. From the menu, select Extras > Plugins.
    Open the plugins list
  2. Click Add.
    Add a new plugin
  3. Select text in the drop-down list of built-in plugins, then click OK.
    Add the text plugin
  4. Click Apply.
    Add the text plugin

Reload your browser tab to load the plugin into the diagram editor.

Extract the text in a diagram

Click Extras > Extract Text, then copy the extracted text in the dialog that appears, then click Close.

Copy the extracted text in the dialog

Note: Plugins work with the web version of draw.io (app.diagrams.net) or our Docker image if you want to run your own server. They do not work with draw.io for Confluence/Jira or with draw.io Desktop.