arCHMage converts CHM files to HTML, plain text and PDF. CHM is the format used by Microsoft HTML Help, also known as Compiled HTML.

archmage -x <chmfile> [output directory]

Extraction does not overwrite existing directories.

archmage -d <chmfile>

archmage -c (html|text|pdf) <chmfile> [output file]

This feature requires htmldoc(1), and lynx(1) or elinks(1) installed.

Archmage uses PyCHM that depends on (C library) CHMlib. After CHMlib is installed, do

pip install archmage

arCHMage has the following dependencies:

• Python 3.6
• PyCHM
• BeautifulSoup4

Optional dependencies:

• htmldoc - converting to plain text, single HTML, PDF formats (Debian/Ubuntu: htmldoc)
• Lynx or ELinks - converting to plain text (Debian/Ubuntu: lynx)