How to convert word or pdf to html

ramakrishnankt · 11-11-2009, 02:20 AM

Hi,
I want to use an utility to convert word,pdf to html with same formatting.
that utility able to run in commandline also. i want to integrate it in web page. so which utility is suitable for it

markush · 11-11-2009, 02:58 AM

Hello ramakrishnankt and welcome to LQ,

this will not work. PDF is a binary format from which it is not possible to extract a html-file. The only way I see to do this would be to copy the text from the PDF-file paragraph by paragraph into a html-file. If you have a more elaborate formatting such as tables you'll have to get your hands dirty.

With the worddocument it may help to save this file as a textfile and convert this into html. But be aware that all formatting will be lost.

Markus

vijaush · 11-11-2009, 03:37 AM

try using pdftohtml app.

r3sistance · 11-11-2009, 03:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by markush

this will not work. PDF is a binary format from which it is not possible to extract a html-file. The only way I see to do this would be to copy the text from the PDF-file paragraph by paragraph into a html-file. If you have a more elaborate formatting such as tables you'll have to get your hands dirty.

I don't buy that one at all, while you'd never get an exact copy. You can atleast automate the text section. The reason I say that is that google automatically converts .PDFss it finds into HTML. So I decided to take a quick look and found that adobe have a tool for this facility. I personally am not a great fan of .PDFs so I do not know how good this is.

It seems it's designed more as an HTML viewer then as a standard convertor however.

ramakrishnankt · 11-12-2009, 12:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vijaush

try using pdftohtml app.

how to get it

vijaush · 11-12-2009, 05:42 AM

Just have a look at these links, they do what you want:

http://thelinuxsociety.org.uk/conten...rt-pdf-to-html

and http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-conv...tml-files.html

jschiwal · 11-12-2009, 06:10 AM

pdftohtml is supplied by the poppler-tools package. The results won't preserve the formatting but you will preserve the links. The sections will have generic headers. From what I've seen on the web, a page from a pdf would be converted to a graphic image. It would be better to use the source of a pdf (e.g. texi, LaTeX, xml, TeX) and produce an output format from the appropriate tool, or to post links to pdf document instead.

H_TeXMeX_H · 11-12-2009, 08:12 AM

For .doc to .html use:
http://wvware.sourceforge.net/

craigevil · 11-12-2009, 07:15 PM

poppler-utils and/or xpdf-utils

You can also try http://www.pdfdownload.org/free-pdf-to-html.aspx nice Firefox extension that works pretty well.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acroba...linetools.html
Convert pdf to html - http://www.convertpdftohtml.net/

Actually Google returns quite a few online conversion sites.
http://tinyurl.com/ykhntus

ramakrishnankt · 11-13-2009, 04:06 AM

Thanks for all
how to use wv Utilities
And any utility for converting doc to html

sandyago · 06-05-2012, 04:18 AM

Well I totally disagree with the saying that pdf format can not be converted to html page, becase I have tried it before and it works very well. what you need is a pdf to html converter, here are some instructions about how to convert pdf to html, hope it can help you solve your problem.

but about how to convert word to html,I never use that kind of tools before, but there must be one can solve the problem, just google your question to find one.

pan64 · 06-05-2012, 05:05 AM

MS Word can itself save files in html format, so using macros you can open a word document and save it as html. OpenOffice can do it also