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HTML to Text Converter Command Line

HTML to Text Converter converts HTML documents to simple text files, by removing all HTML tags and formatting the text according to your preferences.

When you convert HTML to plain text the converter has a large number of options for producing good-looking text files. By default it will convert your HTML file to text as accurately as possible with headings, lists and tables all faithfully preserved. However options exist should you prefer to "flatten" the output text, ready for input into a database, or to convert tables into CSV format to allow access to the data.

Using HTML to Text Converter to convert HTML to text you can:

Convert Web pages and HTML files to good looking plain text (.txt) with headings, lists, and tables all nicely laid out.
Convert HTML email to a smaller, safer ASCII text format for archiving.
Prepare web pages for insertion into a database, either as simple text, or as CSV data.
HTML to Text Converter automatically removes all tags and scripts from the document.
All HTML entities (e.g.: &amp, &lt) are converted into the corresponding ASCII characters.
Unordered lists (<ul> tag) and ordered lists (<ol> tag) are formatted accordingly.
Simple tables can be delimited by spaces, tab characters, commas, or CRLF.
Preformatted text blocks (<pre> tag) are copied "as is", without formatting the text.
You can convert multiple HTML files in the same folder at once, by using wildcard. (e.g.: c:\files\*.html)
You can run the conversion process without displaying any user interface, by using the command-line option. (e.g.: htmltools.exe C:\test.htm C:\out.txt)

The tool supports wildcards (*.htm; *.html), and a console application is available for batch operations, making it well suited to whatever mode of operation you prefer.

Whether you want to convert HTML email to text, collate text from multiple sources on the web, or are simply looking for some way to remove all the JavaScript, FONT tags and comments from your HTML archives, HTML to Text Converter is the tool for you.

Programming Interface: Your application simply uses function calls to do the conversion. The Win32 version includes the function and constant declaration files for C/C++, Visual Basic and Delphi. The product is usable in any environment which allows for calling simple DLL functions.

Complete list of supported conversions in HTML to Text Converter product,

EMF to PDF, PS (Postscript), TIF, TIFF, JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, WMF, EMF, PCX, TGA, JP2, PNM
WMF to PDF, PS (Postscript), TIF, TIFF, JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, WMF, EMF, PCX, TGA, JP2, PNM
RTF to PDF, PS (Postscript), TIF, TIFF, JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, WMF, EMF, PCX, TGA, JP2, PNM
Word DOC to PDF, PS (Postscript), TIF, TIFF, JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, WMF, EMF, PCX, TGA, JP2, PNM
HTML to PDF, PS (Postscript), TXT, TIF, TIFF, JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, EMF, WMF, PCX, TGA, JP2, PNM

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You can run following command lines to batch convert your HTML files to plain Text files,

Convert just one HTML file to Text file,

"E:\htmltools\htmltools.exe" C:\test.htm C:\out.txt

"E:\htmltools\htmltools.exe" http://www.verypdf.com C:\out.txt

Convert all HTML files in D:\test folder to text files, place all text files to D:\text folder,

for %F in (D:\test\*.html) do "E:\htmltools\htmltools.exe" "%F" "D:\text\%~nF.txt"

Convert all HTML files in D:\test and sub-folders to text files, place all text files to same folder of original HTML files,

for /r D:\test %F in (*.html) do "E:\htmltools\htmltools.exe" "%F" "%~dpnF.txt"

You can also run following command lines to convert your RTF files to PDF files,

htmltools.exe C:\in.rtf C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -pdfa C:\in.rtf C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -pdfx C:\in.rtf C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe C:\*.rtf C:\*.pdf
htmltools.exe -margin 100x100x100x100 C:\in.rtf C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -append 2 -width 612 -height 792 C:\*.rtf C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -append 2 C:\*.rtf C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe C:\filelist.txt C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -width 612 -height 792 C:\in.rtf C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -append 1 C:\in.rtf C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -append 2 C:\in.rtf C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -subject "subject" C:\in.rtf C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -ownerpwd 123 -keylen 2 -encryption 3900 C:\in.rtf C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -bookmark 3 C:\in.rtf C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -mergepdf "C:\1.pdf|C:\2.pdf|C:\3.pdf" C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -mergepdf "C:\*.pdf" C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -mergepdf "C:\filelist.txt" C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -mergepdf "C:\test-extraction.pdf*10-15 C:\out10-15.pdf
htmltools.exe -mergepdf "C:\test-extraction.pdf*500-501 C:\out500-501.pdf
htmltools.exe -bwidth 100 -bheight 100 C:\in.rtf C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe C:\in.rtf C:\out.gif

Add watermarks into PDF files:
htmltools.exe -wtext "VeryPDF" "C:\in.rtf" C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -wtext "VeryPDF" -wc "0000FF" "C:\in.rtf" C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -wtext "VeryPDF" -wx 100 -wy 100 "C:\in.rtf" C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -wtext "VeryPDF" -wtype 1 "C:\in.rtf" C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -wtext "VeryPDF" -wtype 2 "C:\in.rtf" C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -wtext "VeryPDF" -wtype 0 -wa 45 "C:\in.rtf" C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -wtext "VeryPDF" -wf "Arial" "C:\in.rtf" C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -wtext "VeryPDF" -wf "Arial" -wh 20 "C:\in.rtf" C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -wtext "VeryPDF" -wf "Arial" -wh 20 -wb -wi -wu -ws "C:\in.rtf" C:\out.pdf
htmltools.exe -wtext "VeryPDF" -wf "Arial" -walign 3 -wh 20 -wbox "0,770,612,792" "C:\in.rtf" C:\out.pdf

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