import sys
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

def remove_html_tags(input_file, output_file):
    # Read the HTML content from the input file
    with open(input_file, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        html_content = f.read()

    # Use BeautifulSoup to parse and extract text
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, 'html.parser')
    text = soup.get_text()

    # Write the plain text to the output file
    with open(output_file, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        f.write(text)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) != 3:
        print("Usage: python remove_html_tags.py <input_file> <output_file>")
    else:
        input_file = sys.argv[1]
        output_file = sys.argv[2]
        remove_html_tags(input_file, output_file)
        print(f"HTML tags removed. Output written to {output_file}")