HTML to TXT Conversion

Frequently, software processing textual data cannot directly handle HTML-files, which are the most common files found on the web. Below programs batch convert HTML into plain Text. To get an idea about the capabilities of these programs, you can get the plain-text-version of the current HTML page, as created by the different programs by clicking on the "Conversion Result"-links.

• Web2Text
  Web2Text is a bare bones program, with which you can batch convert HTML files into TXT.
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• Detagger
  Detagger contains a few more options than Web2Text, but these options do not enhance the conversion process significantly. Hence, we do not recommend its purchase (currently US-$ 20).
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• HTMLtoTXT
  If you do not require paragraph marks in HTML to be reproduced in the ASCII file, try freeware HTMLtoTXT.
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• Markup Remover
  This Windows 3.11 style tag remover is shareware and has some useful customization facilities, most importantly, it can convert to ASCII, iso 8859-1, and ANSI (for UNIX).
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• NoteTab
  NoteTab is not a stand-alone detagger, but a full fledged ASCII/HTML-Editor. The shareware fee of US-$ 19.95 will yield a quick payback, as it most effectively transforms HTML into plain text.
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•  HTML Markdown
  HTML Markdown was written for the PowerMac.
•  more HTML converters

Other Converters

• ABC Amber Textconverter
  This shareware conversion tool performs conversions between many major file formats, namely:
  • ANSI (.txt)
  • Unicode (.txt)
  • Rich Text Format (.rtf)
  • Microsoft™ Word™ (.doc)
  • Corel™ WordPerfect™ (.doc)
  • Lotus™ AmiPro™ (.ami)
  • Microsoft™ Excel™ (.xls)
  • Lotus™ 1-2-3™
  • Adobe™ Portable Data Format™ (.pdf).