Man page 1 : pdftohtml

pdftohtml - program to convert pdf files into html, xml and png images

pdftohtml "[options] <PDF-file> [<html-file> <xml-file>]"

This manual page documents briefly the

R 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.

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

    dont print any messages or errors

-v

    print copyright and version info

-p

    exchange .pdf links with .html

-c

    generate complex output

-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)

-nomerge

    do not merge paragraphs

-nodrm

    override document DRM settings

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 S\xF8ren Boll Overgaard <>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).