PDF to HTML converter

A PDF describes a fixed page, while HTML normally flows to fit the reader’s screen. Converting between them involves a choice about what matters most. Use Readable text when you want headings and paragraphs that can be edited and reflowed. Use Page images when the visual arrangement matters more than selectable text. Both modes run in your browser and let you inspect the generated HTML before downloading or publishing it.

Readable mode uses the PDF text layer to reconstruct a document. It can infer headings from text styles, but it does not preserve every column, table or page position. Images are not included in that mode. A scan without a text layer needs OCR outside this tool before its words can become editable HTML. If only some pages contain text, the conversion reports how many pages were omitted.

Page-image mode renders each PDF page into an image and places those images inside a complete HTML document. This can preserve charts, photographs and scanned pages visually. The words inside the images are not selectable or searchable, and the mode does not perform OCR. To keep browser memory and output size manageable, this mode accepts up to forty pages and caps the resulting HTML at twenty megabytes.

Choose the mode before opening a file; changing it resets the current conversion so the preview cannot be mistaken for a different output. Review long tables, unusual fonts and small text carefully. Download HTML for a local copy or publish the result through DocHost with the converted document already carried into the publisher. The hosted page uses the access and expiry settings you choose there; conversion alone does not publish your PDF.

A consultant receives a six-page research brief and wants to share its findings as a webpage. Most pages contain ordinary text, but the last page is a scanned appendix. The consultant starts with Readable text, opens the PDF and checks the generated outline beside the preview.

The converter reconstructs the main paragraphs and headings. It reports that one page has no text layer. The consultant corrects a heading and removes a repeated footer from the source, then downloads the HTML. This version is useful for readers who need to copy a sentence or read the brief on a narrow screen, but it does not contain the scanned appendix or the original diagrams.

For a second version that includes every page visually, the consultant selects Page images and opens the PDF again. The preview now shows a stack of page images, including the scanned appendix. Text cannot be selected in this version, so the consultant uses a clear document title and checks that small labels remain readable. After reviewing the result, Publish converted HTML opens the ordinary DocHost publishing flow. The returned link gives collaborators a browser page to open. The original PDF remains the reference file for exact print output and any interactive form fields.