Get the on-screen text from an Instagram video
Read the text burned into the frame — steps, captions, prices, lists — in the order it appears. Audio-only tools cannot see any of it.
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Replace the three demo links with your reel links and run. The text burned into the frames comes back in the on-screen text column, one entry per distinct card, in the order it appears.
These demo reels have no speech, only music and text on screen. The row marks them as having no speech, while the on-screen text, hook and structure are still filled in. An audio-only transcript would return nothing here.
Yes. Word-by-word caption animations are collapsed to their final form, so you get the sentence once rather than many growing fragments. A separate column says when the on-screen text is only the creator's own subtitles.
Both, in one pass. The audio becomes the spoken transcript, and the frames are read separately for text drawn on them, such as prices, quantities, step numbers, lists and code.
No, it reads reels only. Carousels and photos come back as free rows marked as not a video, with their metadata and, for carousels, a link to every slide image.