diff --git a/tools/textviewer.sh b/tools/textviewer.sh
index 38c8894..b3ce01c 100755
--- a/tools/textviewer.sh
+++ b/tools/textviewer.sh
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ case $TYPE in
 		echo -e "Displaying \"$1\" using \"unrtf\":\n";
 		unrtf -t text "$1" 2>/dev/null | egrep  -v '^### ' | fold -s -w 72  ;;
 
-	TEXT)	cat "$1"				;;
+	TEXT)	cat "$1" | sed -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,2})?)?[m|K]//g";;
 
 	MSWORD) which antiword  > /dev/null  2>&1 || 
 		{