How it works
- 1Choose a PDF with selectable text.
- 2Choose Clean HTML or Preserve Layout and set the available options.
- 3Preview the generated page and download the HTML file.
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PDF to HTML Converter
Convert selectable-text PDFs to clean HTML or a self-contained visual HTML page in your browser. No PDF upload is required.
✓ Clean semantic HTML or visual Preserve Layout mode✓ Tagged-PDF structure is used when usable✓ Fallback heading, paragraph and column heuristics for ordinary PDFs
Choose a PDF file
Clean HTML works best with selectable-text PDFs
No file selected.
About this tool
PDF to HTML uses PDF.js locally. Clean HTML reconstructs readable document flow and can use tagged-PDF structure; Preserve Layout renders each page visually and overlays selectable text.
Frequently asked questions
Is my PDF uploaded?
No. PDF parsing, page rendering and HTML generation happen in your browser.
Which mode should I use?
Use Clean HTML for editable web content. Use Preserve Layout when visual similarity to the PDF matters more than semantic markup.
Does it work with scanned PDFs?
Image-only PDFs do not contain useful selectable text. Run OCR PDF first if you need semantic text extraction. Preserve Layout can still render page images, but text selection will be limited without OCR.
Can every PDF become perfect semantic HTML?
No. PDF is primarily a positioned page-description format. Untagged multi-column documents and tables require heuristics, so complex reading order can need manual correction.