Readability is a special application which transforms web pages into an easy to read format. This can be added as a bookmarklet on any browser. The application turns web pages into an easy to read online ebook by removing clutter around like sidebars, graphics and navigation. It also changes background colors, font size and page margins.
The Readability is very easy to use. To make reading on web more enjoyable select page style, size and margins and then drag & drop provided bookmarklet onto you browser. If you want to transform a webpage into a simple text, click on the bookmarklet you saved before and it will do that rest.
This is available for free and works with all major browsers: Firefox, IE, Opera, Google Chrome and Safari. The best feature is the available customizations. So here on wards read the web pages in a way you like. Get Readability here : www.lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability
you may want to try TidyRead. It has accuracy to extract articles and supports different languages.