PDFTOHTML
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NAME
pdftohtml - program to convert PDF files into HTML, XML and PNG images
SYNOPSIS
pdftohtml
[options] <PDF-file> [<HTML-file> <XML-file>]
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. If
PDF-file
is '-', it reads the PDF file from stdin.
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
- -dataurls
-
use data URLs instead of external images in HTML. No available in all platforms
- -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
- -noroundcoord
-
do not round coordinates (with XML output only)
- -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
- -fmt
-
image file format for Splash output (png or jpg).
If complex is selected, but -fmt is not 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.
- -fontfullname
-
outputs the font name without any substitutions.
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@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
SEE ALSO
pdfdetach(1),
pdffonts(1),
pdfimages(1),
pdfinfo(1),
pdftocairo(1),
pdftoppm(1),
pdftops(1),
pdftotext(1)
pdfseparate(1),
pdfsig(1),
pdfunite(1)