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PDF to HTML

Extracts the text from every page of a PDF and writes a single, simply styled HTML file. Each page becomes a section with a 'Page N' label and one paragraph per line of text. Images and the original layout are not included.

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Extracts the text from each page into a clean, readable HTML document — good for sharing or embedding text content. Original visual layout is not reproduced.

How to Use

1Drop one PDF onto the upload area, or click to choose it. Only one file is accepted.
2Click Convert to HTML and wait for 'Converting to HTML...' to complete.
3Download the .html file and open it in a browser or text editor.
4Edit or copy the parts you need; the page has a small embedded stylesheet you can change.

About this tool

Updated September 19, 2026

A plain, readable web page

Each PDF page becomes a section labelled Page N, with one paragraph per line of text, in a single self-contained HTML file.

The file carries its own small stylesheet, so it opens in any browser and reads comfortably without anything else alongside it. There is nothing to upload and no folder of assets to keep together. That self-contained quality is the main practical advantage over other conversions: you can email the one file and it will look the same for whoever opens it.

Text only, by design

Images, colours, columns, tables and fonts from the original are not reproduced.

What you get is the words in reading order, wrapped in simple paragraphs. That is a real limitation if the document's meaning depends on its layout, and a real advantage if it does not — the output reflows to any screen width, which a PDF never does. Tables are the usual casualty, because their cells arrive as ordinary lines and lose their grid.

Where this beats a PDF

Reading on a phone, searching with the browser's own find, and copying text without line-break artefacts.

A PDF page is a fixed rectangle, so on a small screen you either zoom and pan or squint. HTML reflows to the width you have. It is also easier to feed into anything else: a browser's find command works normally, and pasting from it does not bring the stray hyphens and broken lines that copying out of a PDF often does.

Check that the PDF has real text first

A scanned PDF contains pictures of words, not words, so the conversion produces empty sections.

Try selecting a sentence in your PDF. If nothing highlights, run OCR PDF over it first to add a text layer, then convert. Also expect headers, footers and page numbers to appear as ordinary paragraphs, since nothing distinguishes them from body text once the page is reduced to placed characters.

Features

One PDF at a time (maxFiles is 1), .pdf files only
Output is one self-contained HTML file with an inline stylesheet (sans-serif, 800 px max width)
Each PDF page becomes a section headed 'Page N'
Text on the same line is grouped by vertical position and each line becomes a p element
Text is HTML-escaped, so special characters show as text
Runs in your browser; the PDF is not uploaded

FAQ

Does the HTML look like the PDF?

No. You get plain text in reading order, one paragraph per visual line. There are no images, no columns, no tables, no bold or italic, no headings other than the 'Page N' labels, and no links. Lines are not merged into real paragraphs, so a wrapped sentence appears as several p elements.

Why is the output empty for my scanned PDF?

Only text stored in the PDF can be extracted. A scanned PDF is images of pages, so the sections come out with no text. The tool does no OCR, so use OCR PDF first if you need words from a scan.

Can the text come out in the wrong order?

It can. Lines are rebuilt purely from vertical and horizontal position, so multi-column pages, tables and right-to-left scripts may be read out of order or with odd spacing. Check the result against the PDF before publishing it.

Is my PDF uploaded?

No. The PDF is read and the HTML file is created in your browser, with no upload for the conversion.

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