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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.

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
-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).