Web Page Cleaner - Beta (TAPoRware)

Last Updated: 10/8/2020 12:00:00 AM
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This tool removes all HTML formatting from a web page or an uploaded HTML file, leaving the text for further processing. It is particularly good for preparing text-intensive web pages for analysis as plain text.

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Creator(s): Geoffrey Rockwell et. al.

Creator's Site: http://geoffreyrockwell.com/

Creator's Email: grockwel@ualberta.ca

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Type of analysis: Enrichment
Type of license: Free
Web Usable: Run in Browser
Ease of Use: Easy
Warning: No longer supported
Tool Family: TAPoRware
Historic Tool (developed before 2005): Discontinued (no longer available)
TaDiRAH Goals: Enrichment
TaDiRAH Methods: Cleanup

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Amy Dyrbye

Web Page Cleaner (Beta) is a free, simple to use web-based tool designed to run in a browser window. It processes an HTML document at a user-specified web address or from the user's files and removes all HTML tagging.

This tool is basic, offering only two options: users may either strip tags from their document, or convert it to plain text.

The tool has a few problems. It replaces some punctuation, other non-alphabetical and accented alphabetical characters with Unicode equivalents. When the strip tag option is selected, the tool also runs previously-tagged text together, which can result in issues if no space was included before or after a tagged chunk.

Despite these limitation, Web Page Cleaner (Beta) is an effectively way to quickly convert an HTML document to untagged text or plain text.

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