Converting Chess Symbols to Letters?

Hi all, 

I have a few ebooks which use chess symbols instead of letters in their notation. For example:

1.e4 e5 2.♘f3 ♘c6 3.♗c4 ♗c5 4.c3 ♘f6 5.d3 a6

Instead of 

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d3 a6

Does anyone know of an online tool/software that converts chess symbols into their equivalent letter notation?

What I like to do is create a pgn file with all the line/variations/exercises etc the book presents and then add my own study notes and/or import it into chessable for practice and memorisation. The easiest way to do this is to copy and past notation into lichess to create a study pgn. However, this doesnt work if notation with symbols are pasted in instead of letter notation. 

Obviously I’m aware I can do this myself manually, but for a 350 page book with tons of variations and exercises this is a very slow and tedious process vs copying and pasting in the notation. 

Its strange/frustrating that many chess publishers dont include or allow us to purchase pgn versions of books! 

Thanks a lot, 

Rich 

A couple of things:

Some publishers do offer ebooks or Chessable courses based on their books.
Some people have taken the time to create PGNs for popular books. See http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/

It is an easy matter to create your own databases based on books that you have if you have a decent database. Historic games are readily available at chessgames.com and many other sites, even chess.com. The Week in Chess is free and keeps you up to date with current games.

If you are reading the book and going through the variations, it is easier to create a database than to play through the moves on a chess board.

The symbols are codes. You can autoreplace the codes by K Q R B N .

I wasn't sure what this meant initially but figured it out!

By using Microsoft Word and then using Find & Replace I've been able to replace each symbol with their equivilant letter. Thanks a lot!

I didn't realise you could do this with symbols (or 'codes' as you say). 

That link is a fantastic resource that I'd not come accross, thanks a lot for sharing and also for the pointers re: creating databases, much appreciated. 

The quality of the databases are not consistent (I suspect a lot of people contribute), and I've never found anything there without errors, but it remains a useful site.

Years ago, a professor in Austria maintained a download page with lots of resources, including PGNs of books. The professor died and his university too the site down a year or two later. Some of the content was accessible via the Wayback Machine, but is no longer. I think Wall has most of what was there and a lot more. See https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/gunther-ossimitz-pgn-files