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How can I make a plain text version from a HTML file?

April 26, 2017file html plain text version

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How can I make a plain text version from a HTML file?

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You can edit out the HTML by hand, of course, but there are several easier ways to convert. You can view the HTML in a browser, Select All text, and just Copy and Paste into your editor. This is easiest, but doesn’t handle formatting like tables very well. You can use the Lynx [P.1] browser to convert your text with the command lynx -dump myfile.html > myfile.txt Bruce Guthrie’s HTMSTRIP for MS-DOS [P.1] is very configurable. has a list of other HTML to plain text converters.