Krutidev to Unicode Converter

What is Kruti Dev, and why convert it to Unicode?

Kruti Dev 010 is the Hindi font that typists in government offices, courts, printing presses and typing exams have used for decades. It is not a real Hindi encoding: the file stores ordinary English keyboard letters, and the font draws them as Devanagari. That is why a Kruti Dev document opened on a computer without the font, or pasted into WhatsApp, email or a website, shows text like Hkkjr ljdkj instead of भारत सरकार.

Unicode is the standard every phone, browser and modern font understands. Once the text is converted to Unicode (the kind shown in fonts like Mangal and Nirmala UI), it displays correctly everywhere, can be searched and copied, and no longer depends on one font being installed. The Krutidev to Unicode converter above does this in both directions.

How to convert Krutidev to Unicode

1. Keep “Kruti Dev → Unicode” selected and paste your Kruti Dev text into the left box.
2. The Unicode Hindi appears on the right as you paste or type. There is no button to press.
3. Click Copy and paste the result anywhere, or download it as a Word file.

To go the other way, for example when an exam form or an old office template still needs Kruti Dev, choose “Unicode → Kruti Dev”, paste Unicode Hindi and copy the result. Paste it into Word and set the font to Kruti Dev 010, or use “Copy for Word”, which sets the font for you.

Is your text in the Chanakya font (common in newspaper and DTP files) rather than Kruti Dev? Chanakya uses a different character table, so use the Chanakya to Unicode converter for it.

Typing in DevLys 010, as Rajasthan government offices do? It has the same keyboard layout as Kruti Dev, and the DevLys to Unicode converter also fixes DevLys's curly quote marks and sets DevLys 010 as the font when you convert back.

Need the text in Chanakya rather than Unicode, for a newspaper page laid out in that font? The Krutidev to Chanakya converter rewrites Kruti Dev text for the Chanakya font in one step. Marathi typed in the Shree Lipi font SHREE-DEV-0714 has its own Shree Lipi to Unicode converter. Nepali typed in Preeti goes to the Preeti to Unicode converter. For Bengali legacy-font documents, the Unicode to Bijoy converter handles SutonnyMJ in both directions.

Converting text copied from Word, with English words inside

Real office documents mix Hindi with English: order numbers like “No. 12/A”, dates like 01/10/2026, names of departments, email addresses and website links. In a Kruti Dev file those English parts are typed in a different font. Most converters only see plain text, so they turn the English into Hindi letters as well, and “01/10/2026” comes out as “01ध्10ध्2026”.

This converter reads the font names that Word and Google Docs copy along with the text. Parts set in Kruti Dev are converted; parts in Arial, Times New Roman or any other font are left exactly as they were. You will see a note under the boxes telling you how many parts were kept. If you type the text by hand or paste from a plain text file, there is no font information, and everything is treated as Kruti Dev.

For a whole document, use “Convert a Word file (.docx)” under the boxes. The file is converted on your computer and downloaded again as a new .docx: Kruti Dev parts become Unicode in the Mangal font, while English text, tables, headers and bold or italic formatting stay exactly as they were. It works the other way too, turning a Unicode document into Kruti Dev 010.

Choose a safe route for your source document

For a letter that mixes Hindi paragraphs with English reference numbers, copy directly from Word with formatting, or open the .docx. For an Excel register, select only the Kruti Dev cells and convert a small range first: tabs separate columns and line breaks separate rows. Paste into a duplicate sheet, set a Unicode Hindi font, and compare names, dates and totals before replacing the original cells.

A scanned notice is an image, so there are no Kruti keys for this tool to read. It needs transcription or OCR before text conversion is possible. Even a selectable PDF may copy its letters in a different order from the printed line. Prefer the editable Word source when it is available; converting repeatedly cannot recreate characters that were lost during copying.

Not sure which output to send? A website or phone message normally needs Unicode; an older printing template may require legacy keys and the matching installed font. Read our conversion and testing approach, or send a short non-confidential example using the conversion error checklist if one word still differs from the source.

Examples

Kruti Dev and Unicode at a glance

Kruti Dev 010 keyboard chart

Which key types which letter in Kruti Dev 010, taken from the same table the converter uses. It helps when you are learning Remington typing, checking a word that came out wrong, or reading Kruti Dev text without the font. Keys that type a half letter (ending in ्) join with the next letter; a few letters need two keys, such as Hk for भ or Fk for थ. To type Hindi with these keys and get Unicode straight away, use the Kruti Dev keyboard. Find individual letters and whole-word key sequences in the Kruti Dev code chart.

Tips for clean results

• After converting, change the font of the document to Mangal or Nirmala UI. If it still shows Kruti Dev, Word will draw the Unicode text with the wrong shapes.
• Kruti Dev text looks like random English when the font is missing. That is normal: paste it as it is, and do not “fix” the letters by hand first.
• Conjuncts such as क्ष, त्र, ज्ञ, श्र, the short i sign (ि) and the reph (र् written above a letter, as in कार्य) are the tricky parts. This converter moves ि to after the consonant cluster it belongs to and moves the reph to the front of its syllable, as Unicode expects. If you find a word that still comes out wrong, email the Kruti Dev text to hello@kruti-dev-to-unicode.com.