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Manual: pdftohtml

PDFTOHTML(1)				   General Commands Manual				PDFTOHTML(1)

NAME
       pdftohtml - program to convert PDF files into HTML, XML and PNG images

SYNOPSIS
       pdftohtml [options]  [ ]

DESCRIPTION
       This  manual  page documents briefly the pdftohtml command.  This manual page was written for the De‐
       bian 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 
	      first page to print

       -l 
	      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 
	      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 
	      output text encoding name

       -opw 
	      owner password (for encrypted files)

       -upw 
	      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 
	      adjust the word break threshold percent. Default is 10.  Word break occurs when  distance	 be‐
	      tween 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 , for the Debian GNU/Linux sys‐
       tem (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO
       pdfdetach(1), pdffonts(1), pdfimages(1), pdfinfo(1), pdftocairo(1), pdftoppm(1),	 pdftops(1),  pdfto‐
       text(1) pdfseparate(1), pdfsig(1), pdfunite(1)

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