diff --git a/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Lucene/Models/LuceneDocumentIndex.cs b/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Lucene/Models/LuceneDocumentIndex.cs
index 7228539db..3b018e9af 100644
--- a/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Lucene/Models/LuceneDocumentIndex.cs
+++ b/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Lucene/Models/LuceneDocumentIndex.cs
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ namespace Lucene.Models {
             switch(_typeCode) {
                 case TypeCode.String:
                     if(_removeTags) {
-                        _stringValue = _stringValue.RemoveTags();
+                        _stringValue = _stringValue.RemoveTags(true);
                     }
                     Fields.Add(new Field(_name, _stringValue ?? String.Empty, 
                         _store ? Field.Store.YES : Field.Store.NO, 
diff --git a/src/Orchard/Utility/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs b/src/Orchard/Utility/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs
index 36239191c..093bd1e95 100644
--- a/src/Orchard/Utility/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs
+++ b/src/Orchard/Utility/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ using System.Globalization;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Text;
 using Orchard.Localization;
+using System.Web;
 
 namespace Orchard.Utility.Extensions {
     public static class StringExtensions {
@@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ namespace Orchard.Utility.Extensions {
                 : new LocalizedString(text);
         }
 
-        public static string RemoveTags(this string html) {
+        public static string RemoveTags(this string html, bool htmlDecode = false) {
             if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(html)) {
                 return String.Empty;
             }
@@ -114,7 +115,13 @@ namespace Orchard.Utility.Extensions {
                 }
             }
 
-            return new string(result, 0, cursor);
+            var stringResult = new string(result, 0, cursor);
+
+            if (htmlDecode) {
+                stringResult = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(stringResult);
+            }
+
+            return stringResult;
         }
 
         // not accounting for only \r (e.g. Apple OS 9 carriage return only new lines)