SPUG: PDF to HTML?

taliesin at speakeasy.org taliesin at speakeasy.org
Sat Jan 15 12:22:25 CST 2000


On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Jay Scherrer wrote:

>I  have a new project that I will be starting and I was wondering if
>someone could point me in the right direction? I would like to convert
>several PDF docs into html with perl. Is this possible?
>I figured I will need to start with pdftotext  and then use
>text2html.pm. But as I have a 100+ documents there must be a way of
>templating the process.

Any reason this has to be done in Perl?  Adobe already has tools to 
convert PDF to HTML, and they appear to be freebies... now, they 
all run on Winders, but if that's not an issue, I think you're set.
No reason to re-invent the wheel.... 

Check out http://access.adobe.com for details... 

-- Glenn


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