Tennyson Maxwell Information Systems, Inc. HTML2Text -- HTML to Display Text Converter

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Html2Text
Version 4.130.1060 for Windows
Price: $79.95

About Html2Text

HTML2Text converts HTML files into displayable text -- in milliseconds. Perfect for both small and large applications: for summarizing web pages, producing excerpts of pages, accurately detecting changes to pages, and more. Machine-generated but hand-tuned for performance, HTML2Text can convert thousands of web pages to their text equivalents in a single, lightning-fast pass. HTML2Text understands HTML 4.0+ together with all of its current extensions (scripts, style sheets, and Dynamic HTML). It also performs character-set conversions, and can generate text in a variety of formats.

Program Features

Uses a machine-generated, hand-tuned FSM (Finite State Machine) for fastest possible conversion speeds: HTML2Text can convert thousands of files to text in seconds
Understands HTML 4.0+ and all current extensions (scripts, style sheets, and Dynamic HTML) (and Microsoft and Netscape dialects of both)
Can render text with faithful line-spacing (as browser would render) or as a single paragraph (optimal for change detection and excerpt generation)
Can perform SGML and ISO-8859 entity conversions

Using HTML2Text

HTML2Text is a command-line program, so you execute it from a DOS box or from the Windows Run command. As a command-line tool, it is designed for easy integration with other software or processes -- it can be run automatically from a batch file, or by executing it as a separate process from within another program.

Running Html2Text with no parameters displays a usage guide:

c:>html2text
v4.130.1060 (c) 2006 Tennyson Maxwell Information Systems, Inc. 
Converts html files to displayable text

Usage: html2text [-ornastmighfpcwq] 
    path  path to file(s) to convert
      -o  output file or directory (default=convert in place) 
      -r  recurse into subdirectories
      -n  do not perform SGML and ISO-8859 entity conversions
      -a  always attempt conversion, even if file is not HTML
      -s  treat newlines as spaces (generate as single paragraph) 
      -t  rename converted files to have .txt extensions
      -m  create single file with multiple records (must also use -o) 
      -i  prepend records with id string (must also use -m) 
      -g  prepend records with page title (must also use -m) 
      -h  prepend records with original html (must also use -m) 
      -f  prepend records with filename (must also use -m) 
      -p  prepend records with complete path to file (must also use -m) 
      -c  append delimiter after table cell endings
      -w  word-wrap text at W characters per line
      -q  quiet output (no progress messages) 
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