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"mode": "man",
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"section": "1",
"url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdftohtml/1/json",
"generated": "2026-05-30T06:05:49Z",
"synopsis": "pdftohtml [options] [ ]",
"sections": {
"NAME": {
"content": "pdftohtml - program to convert PDF files into HTML, XML and PNG images\n",
"subsections": []
},
"SYNOPSIS": {
"content": "pdftohtml [options] [ ]\n",
"subsections": []
},
"DESCRIPTION": {
"content": "This manual page documents briefly the pdftohtml command. This manual page was written for\nthe Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.\n\npdftohtml is a program that converts PDF documents into HTML. It generates its output in the\ncurrent working directory. If PDF-file is ´-', it reads the PDF file from stdin.\n",
"subsections": []
},
"OPTIONS": {
"content": "A summary of options are included below.\n",
"subsections": [
{
"name": "-h, -help",
"content": "Show summary of options.\n",
"flag": "-h"
},
{
"name": "-f ",
"content": "first page to print\n",
"flag": "-f",
"arg": ""
},
{
"name": "-l ",
"content": "last page to print\n",
"flag": "-l",
"arg": ""
},
{
"name": "-q",
"content": "",
"flag": "-q"
},
{
"name": "-v",
"content": "",
"flag": "-v"
},
{
"name": "-p",
"content": "",
"flag": "-p"
},
{
"name": "-c",
"content": "",
"flag": "-c"
},
{
"name": "-s",
"content": "",
"flag": "-s"
},
{
"name": "-dataurls",
"content": "use data URLs instead of external images in HTML. No available in all platforms\n"
},
{
"name": "-i",
"content": "",
"flag": "-i"
},
{
"name": "-noframes",
"content": "generate no frames. Not supported in complex output mode.\n"
},
{
"name": "-stdout",
"content": "use standard output\n"
},
{
"name": "-zoom ",
"content": "zoom the PDF document (default 1.5) (1 means 72 DPI)\n"
},
{
"name": "-xml",
"content": ""
},
{
"name": "-noroundcoord",
"content": "do not round coordinates (with XML output only)\n"
},
{
"name": "-enc ",
"content": "output text encoding name\n"
},
{
"name": "-opw ",
"content": "owner password (for encrypted files)\n"
},
{
"name": "-upw ",
"content": "user password (for encrypted files)\n"
},
{
"name": "-hidden",
"content": "force hidden text extraction\n"
},
{
"name": "-fmt",
"content": "not specified, -fmt png will be assumed\n"
},
{
"name": "-nomerge",
"content": "do not merge paragraphs\n"
},
{
"name": "-nodrm",
"content": ""
},
{
"name": "-wbt ",
"content": "adjust the word break threshold percent. Default is 10. Word break occurs when dis‐\ntance between two adjacent characters is greater than this percent of character\nheight.\n"
},
{
"name": "-fontfullname",
"content": "outputs the font name without any substitutions.\n\n"
}
]
},
"AUTHOR": {
"content": "Pdftohtml was developed by Gueorgui Ovtcharov and Rainer Dorsch. It is based and benefits a\nlot from Derek Noonburg's xpdf package.\n\nThis manual page was written by Søren Boll Overgaard , for the Debian\nGNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).\n",
"subsections": []
},
"SEE ALSO": {
"content": "pdfdetach(1), pdffonts(1), pdfimages(1), pdfinfo(1), pdftocairo(1), pdftoppm(1), pdftops(1),\npdftotext(1) pdfseparate(1), pdfsig(1), pdfunite(1)\n\n\n\nPDFTOHTML(1)",
"subsections": []
}
},
"summary": "pdftohtml - program to convert PDF files into HTML, XML and PNG images",
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{
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{
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{
"flag": "-c",
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"name": "pdfdetach",
"section": "1",
"url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdfdetach/1/json"
},
{
"name": "pdffonts",
"section": "1",
"url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdffonts/1/json"
},
{
"name": "pdfimages",
"section": "1",
"url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdfimages/1/json"
},
{
"name": "pdfinfo",
"section": "1",
"url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdfinfo/1/json"
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{
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"section": "1",
"url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdftocairo/1/json"
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{
"name": "pdftoppm",
"section": "1",
"url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdftoppm/1/json"
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{
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"section": "1",
"url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdftops/1/json"
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{
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},
{
"name": "pdfseparate",
"section": "1",
"url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdfseparate/1/json"
},
{
"name": "pdfsig",
"section": "1",
"url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdfsig/1/json"
},
{
"name": "pdfunite",
"section": "1",
"url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdfunite/1/json"
},
{
"name": "PDFTOHTML",
"section": "1",
"url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/PDFTOHTML/1/json"
}
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