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HTML to TXT Converter

Convert HTML files to plain text online for free. All HTML tags, scripts, styles, and markup are removed — leaving only the readable text content from the page or document.

HTML to TXT Converter

Use this converter to extract readable content from an HTML file, clean up HTML-based email templates for text-only versions, or prepare web content for plain text processing, indexing, or analysis.

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Accepted: .html, .htm
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About the HTML to TXT Converter

HTML files mix content with presentation — tags like <p>, <div>, <span>, and <a> wrap the actual text, while <script> and <style> blocks add behaviour and visual rules that are entirely irrelevant to the text content. This converter strips all of that, returning only the words and sentences that a human would read on the rendered page.

When to use this tool

Use this converter to extract readable content from an HTML file, clean up HTML-based email templates for text-only versions, or prepare web content for plain text processing, indexing, or analysis.

Common use cases

Extracting content from saved web pages Convert a saved .html file to plain text to extract the readable article, documentation, or content without any markup.
Plain text email versions HTML email templates need plain text alternatives — convert the HTML version to generate a clean text version.
Text analysis and NLP Strip HTML from a corpus of web pages before feeding the content into a text analysis or natural language processing pipeline.
Content migration Extract text content from legacy HTML pages during a CMS migration or content audit.

How to convert your file

  1. Drag your file into the upload box above, or click the area to browse your device.
  2. Confirm the filename and size appear correctly in the preview.
  3. Click Convert Now and wait a few seconds while we process.
  4. Use the green download button to save your converted file.

Tips for best results

  • Script and style tag contents are fully removed — only the visible text content is preserved.
  • HTML entities (like &amp;, &lt;) are decoded to their actual characters in the output.
  • Inline formatting (bold, italic, headings) are stripped — the output is plain text with no visual hierarchy.

FAQs

All HTML tags are removed, including structure tags (<div>, <p>, <span>), formatting tags (<b>, <i>, <h1>), script and style blocks, comments, and attributes. Only the text node content is preserved.

No. Content inside <script> and <style> tags is fully removed. Only the visible text content of the HTML document appears in the output.

Yes. Common HTML entities are decoded to their actual characters in the plain text output.

Yes. Save the page as an HTML file from your browser (File > Save As > Webpage, HTML Only), then upload it here to extract the text content.

Table cell text is preserved in the output, but the table structure (columns, rows) is not represented in plain text. For structured table data, use CSV or JSON format instead.

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