Extract Text from HTML
Extract clean, readable plain text from raw HTML source code. Automatically removes style tags, scripts, and comments while formatting readable paragraphs.
Step-by-Step Instructions
Paste HTML Source Code or URL
Paste raw HTML markup, web scraper output, or full web page source.
Configure Extraction Filters
Select whether to strip `<script>`, `<style>`, `<nav>`, `<header>`, `<footer>`, and `<svg>` elements.
Set Whitespace & Line Break Rules
Choose to preserve structural paragraph line breaks or collapse text into a clean single string.
Copy or Export Plaintext
Copy the extracted clean article text or download as a .txt file.
Key Features & Capabilities
- DOM-based HTML text extractor stripping markup tags while preserving natural text structure
- Automated removal of `<script>`, `<style>`, inline CSS, comments, and non-content boilerplate
- HTML entity auto-decoding during extraction (` ` to spaces, `&` to `&`)
- Preservation of table and list text layout (`<li>`, `<p>`, `<h1>`–`<h6>` structural spacing)
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the HTML text extractor differ from a simple regex tag stripper?
A simple regex (e.g., `/<[^>]*>/g`) strips HTML tags but leaves behind inline JavaScript code, CSS stylesheets, and mangled entities, causing words from separate `<div>` tags to collide without spaces. Our DOM-based parser removes script/style nodes completely, inserts whitespace between block elements, and decodes HTML entities into clean readable prose.
Why is HTML text extraction crucial for AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP)?
LLM training pipelines and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems require clean, unpolluted natural language text. Feeding raw HTML tags into embedding models wastes context window tokens and degrades vector semantic similarity search.
How does the extractor handle HTML tables and lists?
Table cells (`<td>`) are separated with tab spacing and rows (`<tr>`) are separated with newlines, preserving the logical data matrix of the table in plaintext.
Is text extraction executed locally in the browser?
Yes. Parsing utilizes the browser's native DOMParser API in client memory. No crawled web pages, confidential emails, or proprietary HTML files are sent to an external server.
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