Hello everyone,

I’m currently facing a challenge with extracting plain text from HTML content, and I’m looking for some advice on how to resolve it.

The issue arises when I try to extract all text segments located between various HTML tags. I’ve been using a regular expression to capture the text, but I’ve encountered a limitation where only the first occurrence of text is retrieved, while subsequent occurrences remain unextracted. The regular expression I’m using is:

>(?P<texte_brut>e^<>]+)<

This works for capturing the first block of text but doesn’t return the remaining segments found within the other tags. My goal is to extract all text occurrences embedded between HTML tags in a single process.

For instance, given the following HTML:

<p>Chers voyageurs,</p>
<p>En raison de travaux sur la commune de Vitrolles, les lignes 7 et 20 sont déviées du 25/09 au 31/12 de 6h à 21h.</p>
<p><strong>Arrêts non desservis :</strong></p>
<p>- Lycée J.Monnet</p>
 

I would expect to retrieve these text segments:

1. Chers voyageurs,
2. En raison de travaux sur la commune de Vitrolles, les lignes 7 et 20 sont déviées du 25/09 au 31/12 de 6h à 21h.
3. Arrêts non desservis :
4. • Lycée J.Monnet

It seems there may be a limitation in how multiple text instances are processed during extraction. I’ve tried different approaches but haven’t yet found a method to ensure that all text segments between tags are captured at once.

Has anyone experienced something similar or knows of a more effective way to extract all text blocks from HTML content? Any advice on adjustments to the regular expression or processing method would be greatly appreciated.

You will find attached the screenshot of the extract text processor used.

Thank you in advance for your responses!