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
- 
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
 
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).