HTML to Text

How HTML to Text works

Strip HTML tags and scripts to leave readable plain text with paragraphs intact. Everything happens inside this page: the tool reads your input, runs the calculation or conversion locally, and hands the result back to you. Nothing is transmitted, because there is no backend to transmit it to.

That design choice is deliberate. Most free tool sites upload your files to a server, process them there, and quietly keep a copy. Toolcin cannot do that — the site is a set of static files. If your connection dropped the moment the page finished loading, every tool would still work.

What is stripped and what is kept

Script and style blocks are removed entirely — not just their tags — because their contents are not text a reader ever sees. Block elements such as paragraphs, headings and list items become line breaks, and <br> becomes a newline.

Inline tags like <b> and <a> are dropped but their text remains, so the sentence survives without the markup.

Why not a regex

The HTML is parsed into a DOM before extraction. A regular expression that strips tags also strips a less-than sign in prose, and it cannot tell a <p> from a <script>. Parsing gets both right.

The trade is that a malformed document may be repaired by the parser in ways you did not expect — an unclosed tag can swallow the rest of the page.

Tables and entities

Cells are separated by whitespace rather than aligned columns, so a table loses its structure and keeps its values. Named entities such as &amp; are decoded to the character they represent.

If you need the table structure, convert to CSV instead — that preserves rows and columns.

Good to know

• Works offline once loaded, including on flights and in locked-down networks.
• No file size limit beyond your device's own memory.
• Free to use, with no account and no usage counter.
• Results are produced locally, so they are not logged or shared with anyone.

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