Made even further modifications of ackermanaviation fork as found in original project issue #3.
Outputs as full-width HTML divided up with section and article tags and such, not as a table, so that it prints better from web browsers to PDF or paper.
(Or try converting it to Word with Pandoc -- this is one reason there is no CSS -- sadly, though, this script still needs a little work because Pandoc on Windows is lousy at parsing relative image paths.)
By Chistopher Mitchell, Ph.D.
(futher modified by ackermanaviation and Katie Kodes)
This tool creates HTML transcripts of SMS/MMS conversations from Carbonite SMS Backup and Restore backup files. It takes one or more XML files, separates them out into one-on-one conversations, and emits each of those conversations as a separate HTML file. It also parses the URI-encoded MMS images in these backups and produces picture files you can view, edit, and organize.
python smsxml2html.py -o <output_dir> -d <some_sort_of_nonexistent_impossible_phone_number> -r <user_carrier_number> <input_file> [<input_file> ...]
- <output_dir>: New directory into which to place HTML files and images
- <some_sort_of_nonexistent_impossible_phone_number>: Something nonexistent, in
1NNNXXXYYYYformat, like10000000000(helps ensure texts to self still process) - <user_carrier_number>: The carrier number of the SMS backups' owner, in
1NNNXXXYYYYformat - <input_file>: One or more XML backup files produced by SMS Backup and Restore.