Html2text is a converter from HTML to plain text.

html2text reads HTML documents supplied in the command line (or from standard input), converts each of them into a stream of plain text characters and writes output to the file or the terminal.

Debian version also can recognize encoding of documents, do on-fly input and output recoding.

html2text was written because the author wasn't happy with the output of "lynx -dump" and so he wrote something better.