Kruti Dev to Unicode Converter

Kruti Dev text is really English letters and symbols that the Kruti Dev 010 font draws as Hindi. WhatsApp, phones and email do not have that font, so they show the letters underneath: “vkSj” instead of और. Unicode Hindi is made of real Hindi letters, so it shows correctly everywhere without a special font. Convert the text here first, then send it.

For this job, yes. Mangal is a Unicode Hindi font that comes with Windows, so people often say Mangal when they mean Unicode. Nirmala UI and Noto Sans Devanagari are Unicode fonts too, and text typed in any of them is the same Unicode text. Kruti Dev is different: it is not Unicode, so the text has to be converted, not just given another font.

In pasted text, Kruti Dev and English are made of the same letters, so the converter has to judge which words are English. With Keep English words on, words that look like English stay as they are and are listed under the result. If one of them was really Kruti Dev, tap it and it is converted. In Word, Excel and PowerPoint files there is no guessing: only text set in a Kruti Dev font is converted, and text in other fonts is left alone.

Yes. Drop a .docx, .xlsx or .pptx file below the text box. The text in Kruti Dev fonts is converted and set in the Unicode font you choose (Mangal, Nirmala UI or Noto Sans Devanagari), and you download the file with -unicode added to its name. Old .doc, .xls and .ppt files need to be saved as .docx, .xlsx or .pptx first.

Copying from such a PDF gives text like “Hkkjr ljdkj”, because the PDF holds Kruti Dev codes. Drop the PDF here instead. Its text is read, converted to Unicode and shown for you to copy, or to download as .txt or as a Word file. English in other fonts, such as web addresses, is left as it is, and the fonts found in the PDF are listed. A scanned PDF has no text to read, so run it through OCR PDF first.

Since 2009, central government offices have been asked to do Hindi work in Unicode fonts such as Mangal. Unicode text can be searched, sorted in Excel and opened on any computer or phone. Kruti Dev text needs the font on every computer that opens it, and breaks when the file goes to one without it. Converting old Kruti Dev files once gives you a Unicode copy to keep.

Yes. Some typing tests ask for Kruti Dev 010 and others for Unicode (Mangal), so check the font your exam notice names. Use Unicode to Kruti Dev to turn any Hindi passage into Kruti Dev practice text, and Kruti Dev to Unicode to read back what you typed.

We test it against a list of hard words from real documents, such as चौथा, कर्त्तव्य, डॉक्टर, विद्वान् and ॥. When a character is not recognised, it is not dropped: it stays in the result, marked, and the summary counts it, so you know exactly where to look.

They are characters the converter could not match to a Hindi letter. Often they come from a different old Hindi font, or they are symbols. They are kept in place and marked so nothing disappears; check those spots and fix them by hand if needed.

No. The conversion runs in this browser tab, so your text and files stay on your device. Nothing you paste is saved, not even in the browser, so closing the tab clears it.

Yes. Every tool works without paying and without an account. Files can be up to 200 pages and 50 MB, and a run that fails costs you nothing. Pro removes the limits.

No. All tools work without signing in. An account raises your allowance and lets you see what you have processed.