PDFTOHTML(1)

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)