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imread

imread extracts the main text from web pages so articles can be read without menus or ads.

What imread does

It takes a link and returns only the article text, removing menus, ads and other page clutter.

Built for

  • AI agents

Key features

  • Listens to articles aloud and translates them into 10 languages
  • Copies cleaned text as plain text or Markdown
  • Optional Library that saves articles and resumes reading position across devices
  • Provides clean Markdown through MCP or a REST API
  • Rejoins broken lines from text pasted from PDFs

Pros

Pros

  • Usable at no cost without creating an account.
  • Output can be copied as plain text or Markdown.
  • Handles Chinese and Japanese pages without garbled text.

Where imread is listed

imread is listed under web scraping in Research AI tools.

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