HTML-FormatExternal lets you turn HTML into plain text using one of
the browsing/formatting programs,

    elinks        http://elinks.cz/
    html2text     http://www.mbayer.de/html2text/
    links         http://links.twibright.com/
    lynx          http://lynx.isc.org/
    netrik        http://netrik.sourceforge.net/
    vilistextum   http://bhaak.dyndns.org/vilistextum/
    w3m           http://sourceforge.net/projects/w3m
    zen           http://www.nocrew.org/software/zen/

WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-FormatExternal/