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HTML to Text Converter
Extract plain text from HTML by removing tags and decoding entities
Conversion Options
- Removes all HTML tags
- Decodes HTML entities to characters
- Preserves paragraph breaks
- Converts lists to bullet points
- Formats tables with pipe separators
- Marks blockquotes with >
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