HTML to Text
Strip HTML down to readable text.
Free HTML to text extractor. Paste markup to get clean readable text with scripts and styles removed, plus character and word counts, in your browser.
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About HTML to Text
Sometimes you need the words, not the markup: auditing your own page copy, feeding content into a text analyzer, stripping an HTML email down to its message, or checking what a screen reader will roughly encounter. This tool extracts the visible text from pasted HTML, removes scripts, styles, and tags, and preserves readable spacing between blocks.
Block elements become line breaks, so paragraphs and headings stay separated instead of running together, and link URLs are dropped while the visible anchor text is kept. You also get character and word counts with the result, handy for meta-description length checks, article word-count targets, or estimating reading time before you publish.
Treat the output as an approximation, not a rendering. Tables flatten into linear text, complex layouts lose their visual structure, and image alt text may appear inline. If you need pixel-perfect fidelity, open the page in a browser; if you need the words, this is faster.
How to use HTML to Text
- Paste your HTML into the input box.
- Click Extract text.
- Copy the cleaned text.
Why use this tool?
- Scripts, styles and tags removed
- Readable spacing preserved between blocks
- Word and character counts included
Tips for best results
- Audit page copy fast: paste a page's HTML to review all its text in one place without design distractions.
- Check word counts: use the built-in counts for SEO targets, essay limits, or reading-time estimates.
- Strip email HTML: convert formatted newsletters to plain text for archiving or plain-text versions.
- Expect flattened tables: table cells become linear text, so re-check data tables after extraction.
- Links keep their text: URLs are dropped but anchor text remains. Add the URLs back manually if you need them.