PDFTOHTML(1) General Commands Manual 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 orig-
inal program does not have a manual page.
pdftohtml is a program that converts PDF documents into HTML. It gener-
ates 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) (1 means 72 DPI)
-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), pdfu-
nite(1)
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