Converting a chm to text

hey guys, as the topic indicates i'm interested in converting chm files to text files. however i'm not sure where to start... has anyone worked with this before or even know of a decent/good tutorial for me to read through?
thanks in advance
**EDIT**
even if someone knows how to convert into an html file then i can figure it out from there on how to remove those tags
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jezeus

yes, i had this problem also, and at the end i decided to use the chm utility that comes with windows and calling it with Runtime.exec() which isnt very cross platform but i didnt care.
anyway, on Windows, a CHM file can be extracted to plain HTML with the command:
hh.exe -decompile extracted filename.chm
are you by any chance trying to write a lucene based ebook search?

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