diff --git a/lib/core/common.py b/lib/core/common.py
index 8ce51f745..94e561a0d 100644
--- a/lib/core/common.py
+++ b/lib/core/common.py
@@ -1111,11 +1111,11 @@ def sanitizeAsciiString(subject):
     else:
         return None
 
-def getFilteredPageContent(page):
+def getFilteredPageContent(page, onlyText=True):
     retVal = page
 
     if isinstance(page, basestring):
-        retVal = re.sub(r"(?s)<script.+?</script>|<style.+?</style>|<[^>]+>|\t|\n|\r", " ", page)
+        retVal = re.sub(r"(?s)<script.+?</script>|<style.+?</style>%s" % (r"|<[^>]+>|\t|\n|\r" if onlyText else ""), " ", page)
 
         while retVal.find("  ") != -1:
             retVal = retVal.replace("  ", " ")