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diff --git a/textproc/html2text/pkg-descr b/textproc/html2text/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..930d340e557c --- /dev/null +++ b/textproc/html2text/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +html2text is a command line utility, written in C++, that converts +HTML documents (HTML 3.2) into plain text (ISO 8859-1). + +Each HTML document is loaded from a location indicated by an URI or +read from standard input, and formatted into a stream of plain text +characters that is written to standard output or into an output-file. +The input-URI may specify a remote site, from that the documents are +loaded with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The program is +even able to preserve the original positions of table fields and +accepts also syntactically incorrect input, attempting to interpret it +"reasonably". The rendering is largely customisable through an RC +file. + +WWW: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~mbayer/tools/html2text.html + +- Simon 'corecode' Schubert |