Turn HTML files into TXT in a couple of clicks. HTML is the markup language of the web; TXT is unformatted UTF-8 text. Content is pulled out of the source container rather than re-authored.
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HTML files (.html, .htm, .xhtml) · up to 100 MB each
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Drop a HTML file above and FileTools360 will turn it into TXT — right here on your device, without uploading anything.
Drag them onto the drop area, choose them from your device, or paste them from your clipboard. You can queue several at once. Nothing is sent anywhere — the file stays on this device.
There is nothing to configure — the content is lifted out as it stands. Formatting that belonged to the HTML container rather than to the text does not come with it.
Press Convert. Everything happens on your own device — nothing is uploaded. Download files one by one, or grab them all as a ZIP.
Privacy, in plain words
What “uploaded” normally means. On most online converters, pressing the button copies your file across the internet onto a computer owned by that website. That copy is what the word “upload” means, and it is the part nobody explains.
What happens instead. This site does not do it. There is no server here that receives files, so your HTML file is read, converted and handed back by the browser you are using right now. It never travels — so there is no copy to store, read, leak or hand over.
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Turn off your Wi-Fi after this page has loaded, then convert a file anyway. It still works, because everything needed is already on your device.
The longer explanation of how this works, and the full detail of what is and is not stored on the privacy page.
A Word file is usually a draft — which means it carries the things that were not meant to be final, and often tracked changes and comments nobody removed. It matters more than it sounds, because of what documents usually are:
Unpublished manuscripts
work whose value depends on it not circulating
Employment contracts
salary, notice periods, restraint clauses
A CV or résumé
home address, phone number, date of birth, full work history
Legal letters and NDAs
privileged material, and named third parties
A file that is never sent cannot be kept, leaked, subpoenaed or used to train anything. That is a property of how this works, not a promise about how carefully it is run.
HTML is the markup language of the web, describing document structure — headings, paragraphs, lists, links — which browsers then render.
Plain text is characters and nothing else — no fonts, no sizes, no layout. It is the most durable digital format there is, readable by every computer built in the last fifty years.
The two formats solve different problems, which is why converting between them involves trade-offs rather than a straight upgrade.
| Property | Source | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Compression | None | None |
| Introduced | 1993 | — |
| Browser support | Every browser. | Everything, forever. |
People make this switch when they run into the limits of HTML: you need a self-contained, fixed-layout file to send someone. TXT is the better fit when content matters and presentation does not.
A TXT file holds one part of what an HTML file contains. That part is taken out as it is, and everything else in the container is left behind rather than converted. Nothing is re-encoded in the process, so the extracted content keeps whatever quality it already had.
It depends entirely on the content: across the samples the TXT ranged from 3% smaller to about the same size, with a middle case about the same size.
| Sample | HTML in | TXT out | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| An easy clipThe compressible end of the range — a clean tone, or a moving test pattern — where a codec does its best work. | 560 B | 558 B | −0% |
| A hard clipThe other end — pink noise, or dense video grain. Close to incompressible by design, and the worst case for every codec. | 6.9 KB | 6.8 KB | −3% |
Produced by this site's own converter. The same code that runs in your browser, at the same default settings, so these are the bytes you would download.
Samples are generated from a fixed seed rather than taken from real photographs or documents, so the corpus is reproducible and carries no licensing question — and so the numbers predict the shape of your result rather than its exact size. Measured 2026-10-01. The method, and the command that regenerates every figure on this page, are on the how it works page.
Source
The markup language of the web.
Target
Unformatted UTF-8 text. The lowest common denominator.
All formatting, images and tables are dropped. Only the text survives.
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