Plain text converter

Convert pasted HTML into plain text with readable line breaks, or paste rich text directly to remove formatting.

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Plain text converter processes your input in this browser. Inputs and results are excluded from analytics. Recent tools save tool names, visit counts and last-visit times. Saved tools store only their names. Draft saving is optional and stays on this device; delete saved text with the draft controls. Loading text from a URL is optional and contacts that server; its URL and your IP address are visible to the server. An optional “Use in” action keeps a handoff in this tab. The next tool removes it on arrival and ignores it if more than a minute has passed.

Copy link includes the inputs you choose to share in the address. Anyone with that link can reopen them. Files and generated results are excluded. Password and key tools share settings only.

Your HTML or text

Pasting from a rich-text editor removes its visual formatting.

Options

Input format

Your result

Reset reloads the tool with its starting values and releases open files and device controls. Saved drafts stay on this device until you delete them.

Links include your inputs and settings. Anyone with the link can see them, so leave out private text. Files and generated results are left out; random draws run again.

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Updated 2026-09-19

How plain text converter works

The HTML mode keeps text and common block breaks, decodes character entities, and removes scripts, styles and embedded media. Plain-text mode preserves exactly what you paste.

Next: Remove extra spaces

A worked example

<p>Hello <b>world</b></p> becomes Hello world. A line-break tag adds a new line.

Next: Remove line breaks

Before you use the result

This extracts text from HTML, not PDF or Word files. Layout, table alignment and CSS-generated content are not retained. Links become their label text; images and alt text are omitted.

Next: Whitespace remover

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