mhtml-to-html

mhtml-to-html

This command line converts .mhtml to .html

Install

> go install github.com/mpr1255/mhtml-to-html@latest

Usage

By default, mhtml-to-html outputs HTML to stdout (like pdftotext).

Output Behavior:

• Stdout mode (no -o flag): Images are stripped for clean text processing in pipelines
• File mode (-o flag): Images and resources are preserved
• Extract files mode (--extract-files): Creates {filename}_files/ directory with external resources

# Extract text content to stdout (images removed)
> mhtml-to-html document.mht

# Save HTML to file (images preserved)
> mhtml-to-html document.mht -o output.html

# Extract with external resource files
> mhtml-to-html document.mht -o output.html --extract-files

# Process with verbose output
> mhtml-to-html document.mhtml --verbose -o converted.html

Flags

  -h, --help              Show context-sensitive help.
      --verbose           Verbose printing.
      --version           Show version.
      --extract-files     Extract resources to external files (default: embed as data URIs).
  -o, --output=STRING     Output file (default: stdout).

Examples

# Extract text content to terminal (images stripped)
> mhtml-to-html email.mht

# Save converted HTML file (images preserved)
> mhtml-to-html email.mht -o email.html

# Save with external resource files
> mhtml-to-html email.mht -o email.html --extract-files

# Pipe output to other tools (text processing)
> mhtml-to-html document.mht | grep "important text"