[NTLUG:Discuss] html to text question

Fred James fredjame at concentric.net
Mon Jun 24 16:41:27 CDT 2002


Yes, I have, but it does not preserve the tabular format.


Dan Carlson wrote:

> Have you tried lynx -dump?
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> Dan Carlson
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>>Any experience in converting html to text, particularly with nested
>>tables, etc.?
>>
>>So far the best I have found is something called "html2text"
>><http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~mbayer/tools/html2text.html>, which seems
>>to do a good job on small files, but seems to dump core on larger files
>>such as reports in html format.
>>
>>Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>Thanks.
>>
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