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How is this different from the myriad of other text extraction services, APIs and libraries out there?

1. it's open sourced 2. it's embeddable 3. it extracts images 4. it's one of the most accurate (http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/06/head-to-head-compar...) 5. it's named after the best top gun character

I'm sold, then, thanks!

I agree. It works quite well! If it can be formatted to look like Readability's default (which is really quite plesant to read) it would be nice.