Hi Monks,

I need to extract text from HTML sites. I am using HTML::Content::ContentExtractor. Quite happy about it, as it tries to extract only the body of a text, leaving out boilerplates, tags, scripts, etc.

Now the BIG problem: Encoding. As soon as I try to convert a non English site, it leaves out any character with accents, etc.

The basic script is (run for any HTML site I have in my $save_grabbing folder: 

  my $tokenizer = new HTML::Content::HTMLTokenizer('TAG','WORD');
  my $ranker = new HTML::WordTagRatio::WeightedRatio();
  my $extractor = new HTML::Content::ContentExtractor($tokenizer,$rank
+er,"$save_grabbing/$html_counter_1.html","$save_grabbing/$html_counte
+r_1.txt");
  $extractor->Extract();

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I think this problem is not easy to solve, but maybe you can give me some suggestions.

Thank you

Cla

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