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How to Convert Html to PDF?

How to convert PDF to HTML?

  • Is there a proper library which I can use to convert PDF to HTML or some other format that can be converted to HTML easily? I searched similar questions, but to no luck. I want to be able to extract text from PDF's, possibly images. I'm not looking to embed the PDF inside the HTML.

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    It is technically impossible to simply "convert" a PDF file to HTML. The PDF format is more like a "canvas", where you "place" your text blocks and images, whereas HTML needs either CSS or a lot of tables to "place" the blocks. Moreover, PDF files embed the images, whereas HTML simply calls other files. There are many other examples of differences, but essentially, it's like asking to convert an image or a video with text in it. You can however read from a PDF file, and then extract the text and images from it, using libraries or other advanced techniques. .Net has a few libraries, for instance : http://forums.asp.net/post/2167442.aspx If you only need to convert one file once, you can open the pdf file in Illustrator for instance, and then export that in html. Or you can select all the document (ctrl+a), copy it, and paste it in Word, and then save the result in html. It will be far from perfect, but it will be a start.

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Yeah it definitely is possible. If your on ubuntu linux apt-get install htmltopdf then htmltopdf myFile.pdf myFile.htm -c -noframes If you want to see what all the flags mean then just type htmltopdf If your not on linux, there are a plethora of tools out there that you can use to make this happen.

Samir Patel

No, it's not possible to convert PDF to HTML.

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