Html2text reads HTML 3.2 documents from the input-urls, formats each into a stream of ASCII characters and writes the result to standard output (or into output-file, if the -o command line option is used). It also accepts syntactically incorrect input and attempts to inter- pret it "reasonably". Documents that are specified by a URL that begins with "http:" are retrieved with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. URLs that begin with "file:" and URLs that do not contain a colon specify local files.