Monday, November 26, 2007

Howto: Convert PDF to HTML/XML/PNG in Linux

Here's a quick howto on converting PDF files into HTML file.

PDFtoHTML linux tool converts PDF files into multiple file formats like HTML, XML, and PNG images. By default usage, the output is written to current working folder. PDFtoHTML linux tool is based on XPDF version 3.00. PDFtoHTML PDF converter tool is part of poppler-utils rpm page.



PDFtoHTML INSTALLATION
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Here's how to install PDFtoHTML PDF linux converter tool.

By default, PDFtoHTML converts PDF file into HTML file.

# yum -y install poppler-utils


BINARY LAUNCH:
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Alt+F2, pdftohtml


PDFtoHTML Usage:
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When working with PDFtoHTML PDF file converter, all resulting output files are saved on current working directory folder. Here's the simplest way to use this PDF converter tool

# cd /location/of/pdf/file
# pdftohtml testfile.pdf test.html


HTH

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