---
name: "pdftohtml"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "poppler"
version: "26.10.0-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pdftohtml"
---

# pdftohtml(1)

program to convert PDF files into HTML, XML and PNG images

## NAME

pdftohtml - program to convert PDF files into HTML, XML and PNG images

## SYNOPSIS

**pdftohtml** *\[options\] \<PDF-file\> \[\<HTML-file\> \<XML-file\>\]*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **pdftohtml** command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**pdftohtml** is a program that converts PDF documents into HTML. It generates its output in the current working directory.  If *PDF-file* is ´-', it reads the PDF file from stdin.

## OPTIONS

A summary of options are included below.

- **-h, -help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-f \<int\>**

  first page to print

- **-l \<int\>**

  last page to print

- **-q**

  do not print any messages or errors

- **-v**

  print copyright and version info

- **-p**

  exchange .pdf links with .html

- **-c**

  generate complex output

- **-s**

  generate single HTML that includes all pages

- **-dataurls**

  use data URLs instead of external images in HTML. No available in all platforms

- **-i**

  ignore images

- **-noframes**

  generate no frames. Not supported in complex output mode.

- **-stdout**

  use standard output

- **-zoom \<fp\>**

  zoom the PDF document (default 1.5) (1 means 72 DPI)

- **-xml**

  output for XML post-processing

- **-noroundcoord**

  do not round coordinates (with XML output only)

- **-enc \<string\>**

  output text encoding name

- **-opw \<string\>**

  owner password (for encrypted files)

- **-upw \<string\>**

  user password (for encrypted files)

- **-hidden**

  force hidden text extraction

- **-fmt**

  image file format for Splash output (png or jpg). If complex is selected, but -fmt is not specified, -fmt png will be assumed

- **-nomerge**

  do not merge paragraphs

- **-nodrm**

  override document DRM settings

- **-wbt \<fp\>**

  adjust the word break threshold percent. Default is 10. Word break occurs when distance between two adjacent characters is greater than this percent of character height.

- **-fontfullname**

  outputs the font name without any substitutions.

## AUTHOR

Pdftohtml was developed by Gueorgui Ovtcharov and Rainer Dorsch. It is based and benefits a lot from Derek Noonburg's xpdf package.

This manual page was written by Søren Boll Overgaard \<boll@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

## SEE ALSO

[**pdfdetach**(1)](/pdfdetach/1.md), [**pdffonts**(1)](/pdffonts/1.md), [**pdfimages**(1)](/pdfimages/1.md), [**pdfinfo**(1)](/pdfinfo/1.md), [**pdftocairo**(1)](/pdftocairo/1.md), [**pdftoppm**(1)](/pdftoppm/1.md), [**pdftops**(1)](/pdftops/1.md), [**pdftotext**(1)](/pdftotext/1.md) [**pdfseparate**(1)](/pdfseparate/1.md), [**pdfsig**(1)](/pdfsig/1.md), [**pdfunite**(1)](/pdfunite/1.md)