Extract plain text from HTML
Paste your HTML
Enter HTML content that you want to convert to plain text.
View extracted text
See the text content extracted from your HTML with tags removed.
Copy the result
Click Copy to save the plain text to your clipboard.
Yes, the HTML to Text Extractor is completely free with no limitations. Extract text from as much HTML as you need without any registration.
Yes, all text extraction happens locally in your browser. Your HTML content is never uploaded to any server, making it safe to extract text from private web pages or confidential documents.
The extractor removes all HTML tags, styles, and scripts from your content, leaving only the readable text. It preserves meaningful structure like paragraphs and line breaks while stripping away all markup.
Common uses include extracting content for text analysis, creating plain text versions of web pages for email, preparing content for AI processing, removing formatting from copied web text, and generating text files from HTML documents.
Block elements like paragraphs, divs, and headings create line breaks in the output. Inline elements like spans and links are removed but their text is preserved. You can configure whether to preserve some structural elements or extract pure text.