diff --git a/_plugins/rosindex_generator.rb b/_plugins/rosindex_generator.rb
index e7361a1..01cc7bf 100644
--- a/_plugins/rosindex_generator.rb
+++ b/_plugins/rosindex_generator.rb
@@ -1554,7 +1554,13 @@ def generate(site)
 
             p = package.data
 
-            readme_filtered = if p['readme'] then self.strip_stopwords(p['readme']) else "" end
+            # collect rendered readmes into simple text
+            readmes_text = ''
+            p['readmes'].each do |readme|
+              readmes_text << get_text_from_html(readme['readme_rendered'])
+            end
+
+            readme_filtered = self.strip_stopwords(readmes_text)
 
             index += 1
             packages_index[distro] << {
diff --git a/_ruby_libs/text_rendering.rb b/_ruby_libs/text_rendering.rb
index 9642f75..850e118 100644
--- a/_ruby_libs/text_rendering.rb
+++ b/_ruby_libs/text_rendering.rb
@@ -101,3 +101,7 @@ def get_md_rst_txt(site, path, glob, raw_uri, browse_uri)
 
   return file_rendered, file_md
 end
+
+def get_text_from_html(html)
+  return Nokogiri::HTML(html).text
+end