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Hi,
I am trying to compile a big corpus of text extracted from webpages for some research. I was wondering if anybody would know what would be the best tool to extract "translatable" text only from html pages and create a separate text file. This would be for research purpouses only, I would not need to convert back to html, xml or anything.
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Html text extraction Nov 29, 2005

Why not simply open the html file in a suitable word processor (such as OpenOffice.org) and "Save As" plain text? Are there too many files?

Marc
 
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Word processors miss text Nov 29, 2005

MarcPrior wrote:

Why not simply open the html file in a suitable word processor (such as OpenOffice.org) and "Save As" plain text? Are there too many files?

Marc


Word processors usually ignore translateable attributes, such as "alt" in images.

Rodolfo
 
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Rodolfo Raya wrote:
Word processors usually ignore translateable attributes, such as "alt" in images.


I doubt that someone who needs "to compile a big corpus of text extracted from webpages for some research" needs the alt attribute of an image.

Another solution would be to open the file with a text editor and remove all html tags. This should be able with regexp.


Sonja
 
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HTML2TXT and a DOS command Nov 29, 2005

MIGUEL JIMENEZ wrote:
I am trying to compile a big corpus of text extracted from webpages for some research. I was wondering if anybody would know what would be the best tool to extract "translatable" text only from html pages and create a separate text file.


In two steps.

1. Download Bobsoft's HTML2TXT and use it to convert all the html files into text files:
http://www.bobsoft.com/h2t/

2. Merge all the text files into a single file, using the following DOS command:
copy *.* > /b all.txt

Good luck!
 
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Try Caterpillar (shareware) Nov 29, 2005

Rodolfo Raya wrote:
Word processors usually ignore translateable attributes, such as "alt" in images.


Well, in that case, try Caterpillar by Stormdance. The web site says "Extracts all text requiring translation - including hidden text and text within tags etc."

The shareware version is limited to 8 HTML pages per project, though. Cost for full version is GBP 25.00. The author claims it is "Wordfast compatible".
 


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