How to convert HTML to TXT
- Add your .HTML file - drop it in the box above or click to browse.
- Convert it to .TXT in a few seconds.
- Download your new .TXT file.
What to expect
- Renaming
.htmlto.txtdoes not convert - the markup tags remain and the file becomes cluttered, unreadable text. - Images are lost entirely; hyperlink URLs are dropped unless you use
html2text, which appends them in brackets. - Raw regex tag-stripping leaves HTML entities like
&as literal characters; browser paste and Pandoc decode them automatically.
Frequently asked questions
Does copy-pasting from a browser capture all the text on the page?
It captures visible rendered text only; hidden elements and dynamically loaded content may be missing. Use Pandoc on the source
.html for a complete extraction.Will paragraph breaks and headings survive the conversion?
Browser paste preserves paragraph spacing as blank lines; Pandoc and
html2text render headings as plain or #-prefixed lines, while raw tag-stripping removes all structural spacing.Can I convert multiple HTML files at once?
Yes - use Pandoc in a shell loop. In PowerShell:
Get-ChildItem *.html | ForEach-Object { pandoc $_.Name -t plain -o ($_.BaseName + '.txt') }.Do `.htm` files convert the same way?
Yes -
.htm and .html are the same format; every method on this page works equally for both extensions.
