"Scraping" implies remote, possibly "unauthorized" access. For your example static html files, converting them to some other format might not be scraping as we

"Scraping" implies remote, possibly "unauthorized" access. For your example static html files, converting them to some other format might not be scraping as we understand it, plenty of editors and browsers have options to dump the data as some other format. Once you remove the requirement for remote, unauthroized access, then every data transformation process become "scraping".