HTML to Plain Text
Strip HTML tags and convert to clean text with optional formatting preservation and link extraction.
Free & unlimited
Clean mode
HTML
Result
Plain text appears here as you type.
All processing happens in your browser. No data is sent to any server.
About this tool
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Paste HTML content
Enter HTML code or upload an .html file to extract text from.
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Configure extraction options
Choose whether to preserve link URLs, list formatting, or table structure.
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Review the plain text
Check that all meaningful content has been extracted correctly.
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Copy or download
Copy the clean text to your clipboard or save as a .txt file.
- Enable "preserve links" to append URLs in brackets after link text - useful for reference documents.
- Script and style tags are automatically removed - only visible content is extracted.
- Use this tool to clean up HTML email content before pasting into a plain-text editor.
- Whitespace is normalized automatically, so multiple spaces and blank lines are collapsed.
- Strips all HTML tags and attributes
- Removes scripts, styles, and hidden elements
- Preserves paragraph breaks and list structure
- Optional link URL extraction
- Normalizes whitespace and encoding
- Extract readable text from an HTML email or web page.
- Prepare web content for text analysis or natural language processing.
- Create a plain-text version of an HTML newsletter for accessibility.
- Clean up messy HTML copied from web pages.
Yes. All HTML entities are decoded to their corresponding characters in the plain-text output.
Only the static HTML source is processed. Content injected by JavaScript at runtime is not included.
Table cells are separated by tabs and rows by newlines, producing a readable grid structure in plain text.