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I've seen a number of questions about removing HTML tags from strings, but I'm still a bit unclear on how my specific case should be handled. I've seen that many posts advise against using regular expressions to handle HTML, but I suspect my case may warrant judicious circumvention of this rule. I'm trying to parse PDF files and I've successfully managed to convert each page from my sample PDF file into a string of UTF-32 text. When images appear, an HTML-style tag is inserted which contains the name and location of the image (which is saved elsewhere). In a separate portion of my app, I need to get rid of these image tags. Because we're only dealing with image tags, I suspect the use of a regex may be warranted. My question is twofold: Should I use a regex to remove these tags, or should I still use an HTML parsing module such as BeautifulSoup? Which regex or BeautifulSoup construct should I use? In other words, how should I code this? For clarity, the tags are structured as <img src="/path/to/file"/> Thanks!

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