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Thread poster: MIGUEL JIMENEZ
MIGUEL JIMENEZ
MIGUEL JIMENEZ  Identity Verified
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Nov 29, 2005

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.
Thanks for your help
 
Marc P (X)
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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
 
Rodolfo Raya
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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
 
Sonja Tomaskovic (X)
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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
 
Samuel Murray
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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!
 
Samuel Murray
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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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