diff --git a/libs/langchain/langchain/document_transformers/html2text.py b/libs/langchain/langchain/document_transformers/html2text.py
index ede87af9c7c..3c123950d3c 100644
--- a/libs/langchain/langchain/document_transformers/html2text.py
+++ b/libs/langchain/langchain/document_transformers/html2text.py
@@ -5,13 +5,22 @@ from langchain.schema import BaseDocumentTransformer, Document
 
 class Html2TextTransformer(BaseDocumentTransformer):
     """Replace occurrences of a particular search pattern with a replacement string
+
+    Arguments:
+        ignore_links: Whether links should be ignored; defaults to True.
+        ignore_images: Whether images should be ignored; defaults to True.
+
     Example:
         .. code-block:: python
             from langchain.document_transformers import Html2TextTransformer
-            html2text=Html2TextTransformer()
-            docs_transform=html2text.transform_documents(docs)
+            html2text = Html2TextTransformer()
+            docs_transform = html2text.transform_documents(docs)
     """
 
+    def __init__(self, ignore_links: bool = True, ignore_images: bool = True) -> None:
+        self.ignore_links = ignore_links
+        self.ignore_images = ignore_images
+
     def transform_documents(
         self,
         documents: Sequence[Document],
@@ -25,10 +34,11 @@ class Html2TextTransformer(BaseDocumentTransformer):
                 install it with `pip install html2text`"""
             )
 
-        # Create an html2text.HTML2Text object and override some properties
+        # Create a html2text.HTML2Text object and override some properties
         h = html2text.HTML2Text()
-        h.ignore_links = True
-        h.ignore_images = True
+        h.ignore_links = self.ignore_links
+        h.ignore_images = self.ignore_images
+
         for d in documents:
             d.page_content = h.handle(d.page_content)
         return documents