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'","exampleUseCases":[{"title":"Clean scraped web page content","prompt":"I just scraped a webpage and the content is full of HTML tags — can you strip all the tags from this HTML and give me just the plain text? '

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'"},{"title":"Prepare HTML email body for NLP","prompt":"I have an HTML email body I need to analyze for sentiment, but the model needs plain text. Strip all the HTML tags from this and decode the entities: '

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'"},{"title":"Extract text from CMS content block","prompt":"Our CMS stores content in HTML format but I need the raw text for search indexing. Remove all HTML tags from this block and keep entity decoding on: '

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