PDF to HTML
Convert PDF documents into clean, web-ready HTML.
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User Guide
Add the file
One PDF, 10 MB or under. Conversion happens server-side, so the document is uploaded, converted and then deleted. Anything genuinely private is better handled by a browser-only tool.
Convert to HTML
Press the button and let it work. Pages with heavy graphics take longer than pages of straight text, because the layout has to be reconstructed as markup and styling rather than simply read off.
Open it in a browser
Look at the result before doing anything else with it. Compare it side by side with the original at the same zoom — headings, tables and anything in columns are where differences show up first.
Clean it up for real use
Converted markup is faithful, not tidy. Expect absolute positioning and generated class names. If it is going into a website, treat the output as a source to lift content from rather than a file to publish as-is, and rewrite the structure with your own semantic tags.
About the PDF to HTML Converter
These formats hold opposite assumptions about the page, and the conversion has to sacrifice one of them.
Fixed canvas versus flowing document
A PDF page is a fixed canvas. Every element has a permanent coordinate, and the page is the same size on a phone as on a billboard. An HTML page is a flow: content adapts to whatever window it lands in, and the browser decides where lines break. You cannot have both.
This converter chooses fidelity. It reproduces the appearance closely by giving elements absolute positions, so the output looks like your document. Resize the window and it will not reflow the way a hand-written page would, because the positions are fixed. That is the correct trade for putting a document on the web without demanding a PDF viewer, and the wrong one if you wanted responsive content for a real site.
Why the markup is faithful but not good
Generated output carries no semantic structure. A heading is text at a larger size in an absolutely positioned box, not an <h2>. A table held together by alignment rather than ruled lines arrives as positioned text that looks correct and is not marked up as a table at all. Search engines and screen readers both rely on that semantic layer, described in the HTML Living Standard, and neither can infer it from coordinates.
How to use the output well
Treat it as a source to lift content from, not a file to publish. Take the text and the tables, then rebuild the page with your own semantic markup and normal blocks. The conversion saves you retyping, which is the expensive part; it does not save you designing, and pasting generated markup into a site will fight your theme and behave badly on phones.
Limits
10 MB per file, one at a time, processed on a server. A text layer is required — a scan converts to a page showing the scan and nothing readable, until OCR has run over it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the HTML responsive on mobile?
No. Layout is preserved with fixed positioning, which is what keeps the page looking like the original, and it is also what stops it adapting to a narrow screen. Content lifted into a hand-written page can be made responsive; the generated file cannot.
Are images included in the output?
Pictures from the document are carried through so the page renders as it should. Check how they are referenced when you move the file — keeping the download together as one unit is the simplest way to avoid broken images.
Can I use this to move a PDF into WordPress?
Not by pasting the markup in, which will fight your theme and look wrong on phones. Use the output to get at the text and tables, then rebuild the page with normal blocks. The conversion saves you retyping, not designing.
Do links inside the PDF still work?
Hyperlinks that exist in the source generally survive as anchors. Internal jumps between pages are less reliable, since the page-to-page structure of a PDF has no direct equivalent in a single HTML file.
How faithful are tables?
Tables drawn with visible rules usually reconstruct well. Tables built from tab stops and alignment often arrive as positioned text that looks correct but is not marked up as a table, so a screen reader or a script will not recognise it as one.
Why does my scanned PDF produce a blank-looking page?
Because there is no text in it to convert — only images of text. The page will show the scan and nothing else. Run OCR first if you need the words.