pdftohtml

program to convert PDF files into HTML, XML and PNG images

see also : pdfdetach - pdffonts - pdfimages - pdfinfo - pdftocairo - pdftoppm - pdftops - pdftotext

Synopsis

pdftohtml [options] <PDF-file> [<HTML-file> <XML-file>]

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description

This manual page documents briefly the pdftohtml command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

pdftohtml is a program that converts PDF documents into HTML. It generates its output in the current working directory.

options

A summary of options are included below.
-h, -help

Show summary of options.

-f <int>

first page to print

-l <int>

last page to print

-q

do not print any messages or errors

-v

print copyright and version info

-p

exchange .pdf links with .html

-c

generate complex output

-s

generate single HTML that includes all pages

-i

ignore images

-noframes

generate no frames. Not supported in complex output mode.

-stdout

use standard output

-zoom <fp>

zoom the PDF document (default 1.5)

-xml

output for XML post-processing

-enc <string>

output text encoding name

-opw <string>

owner password (for encrypted files)

-upw <string>

user password (for encrypted files)

-hidden

force hidden text extraction

-dev

output device name for Ghostscript (png16m, jpeg etc). Unless this option is specified, Splash will be used

-fmt

image file format for Splash output (png or jpg). If complex is selected, but neither -fmt or -dev are specified, -fmt png will be assumed

-nomerge

do not merge paragraphs

-nodrm

override document DRM settings

-wbt <fp>

adjust the word break threshold percent. Default is 10. Word break occurs when distance between two adjacent characters is greater than this percent of character height.

see also

pdfdetach , pdffonts , pdfimages , pdfinfo , pdftocairo , pdftoppm , pdftops , pdftotext

author

Pdftohtml was developed by Gueorgui Ovtcharov and Rainer Dorsch. It is based and benefits a lot from Derek Noonburg’s xpdf package.

This manual page was written by Søren Boll Overgaard <boll[:at:]debian[:dot:]org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).