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Free HTML to Text Converter – Extract Plain Text

Convert HTML to clean plain text while preserving headings, paragraphs and lists. Decode HTML entities, remove scripts and styles, optionally keep link URLs, and process HTML in your browser.

100% Client-SideSafe DOMParserNo Server Uploads
Extraction Options
0 chars • ~0 tags
Extracted Plain Text0 words • 0 lines
0 HTML Chars0 Words Extracted~0 Tags Stripped
100% Client-Side Privacy: Your HTML is processed in your browser and is not uploaded. No scripts are executed.
STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

How to Use the Free HTML to Text Converter

Extract readable plain text from raw HTML snippets or document files in 5 simple steps:

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Step 1 — Paste or Upload HTML

Paste your raw HTML markup into the input editor, or use the 'Load File' button to select a local .html, .htm, or .xhtml document.

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Step 2 — Configure Extraction Options

Enable 'Keep link URLs' if you want hyperlinks appended as (https://...) next to anchor text, and adjust paragraph break or whitespace collapsing options.

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Step 3 — Inspect Plain-Text Output

View the instantly transformed text in the output editor. Document headings, paragraphs, bulleted/numbered lists, and tables are preserved cleanly.

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Step 4 — Review Real-Time Metrics

Check the statistics panel to see original HTML characters, output plain-text characters, word counts, line counts, and estimated tags removed.

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Step 5 — Copy or Download Text

Click 'Copy Text' to place the formatted plain text on your clipboard, or click 'Download (.txt)' to save it as a local text file.

Overview

Free HTML to Text Converter – Extract Plain Text

The VClick Tools HTML to Text Converter transforms raw, tag-heavy web markup into clean, human-readable plain text without losing the inherent structural meaning of the document.
Whether you are cleaning scraped website content, reading rich email source code, feeding clean content into AI prompts, or stripping formatting for text analysis, this utility executes 100% inside your browser using inert DOM parsing.
Conversion

Convert HTML to Plain Text

Web markup contains layers of presentation wrappers, styling attributes, container tags, and scripts. Converting HTML to plain text extracts the true editorial content while discarding superfluous tags.
Our converter processes raw input through an inert browser document context, ensuring that container elements such as divs and spans flow naturally while block boundaries are preserved.
Document Hierarchy

Preserve Headings and Paragraphs

Naive tag-stripping tools often collapse all headings and paragraphs into a single continuous block of text, ruining readability.
VClick HTML to Text identifies headings (H1 through H6) and paragraph (

) tags, maintaining appropriate blank-line separation and newline boundaries so your document retains its original editorial hierarchy.

Lists & Bullets

Convert HTML Lists to Readable Text

List elements (
    ,
      ,
    1. ) convey critical sequence and bulleted relationships in web copy.
The converter automatically renders unordered list items with clean bullet characters (•) and numbered list items with sequential numerical indicators (1., 2., 3.), even in nested list hierarchies, avoiding duplicate numbering or malformed lines.
Character Decoding

Decode HTML Entities

HTML frequently uses character entities such as &, <, >, ",  , as well as hexadecimal (—) and decimal (—) numeric character references.
Instead of relying on an incomplete, manually maintained regex replacement table, the tool uses the browser's native DOM parser to accurately decode all standard named and numeric Unicode entities into genuine text characters.
Code Stripping

Remove Scripts and Styles

A major pitfall of simple regex tag strippers is that they remove tags like