This PM utility strips HTML codes from Web pages, leaving only the text and URLs (optionally). Some of the page's formatting is retained, but since PMStripper is not an HTML interpreter most formatting is lost. While the layout of tables and lists is lost during stripping, data is sorted to separate lines for legibility.

PMStripper is designed to provide a quick conversion of HTML coded files into plain ASCII text. Although the converted files can be edited while loaded in PMStripper, only simple edit commands are available. Therefore, if extensive editing is needed, the text should be loaded into a more capable word processor or text editor.