diff --git a/perl/perl-HTML-TableExtract/README b/perl/perl-HTML-TableExtract/README
index a016d9bace..c208ccef44 100644
--- a/perl/perl-HTML-TableExtract/README
+++ b/perl/perl-HTML-TableExtract/README
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
 Perl module for extracting the content contained in tables 
 within an HTML document, either as text or encoded element 
 trees.
-
-This requires perl-html-parser.