Any way to covert html into readable format in java? [closed]

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I have some emails whose content is in html format and I want to save in database in readable format any inputs.

Also i have got emails dumped in a text file and i need to extract data from it.Any inputs .All in java

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If you want to remove all HTML tags then take a look at Jsoup. The code below using Jsoup shouldc remove all the html tags and give you plain text.

public static String html2text(String html) {
    return Jsoup.parse(html).text();
}

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You could try removing all tags, leaving just the "text" of the tag content:

String text = str.replaceAll("(?m)<.*?>", "");

But it's not going to work for all cases.

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This page describes three ways to extract the data

• using a regular expression
• using HTMLEditorKit included in Swing
• using an HTML parser library like JSoup

which one is best for you is for you to decide, an important consideration will be the dependencies it adds to your application - eg if you already have a desktop application a Swing dependency will probably not hurt, whereas in a server application this might not be the best possible idea.

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HTML is a "readable" format. But if you're looking for something to abstract away the HTML-isms, there are several libraries you can look at. jsoup is one example. Mostly the keywords to look for here are "DOM", "HTML parser", and "XSS prevention".

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You can use HtmlCleaner to remove html tags.