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PDF to HTML

The words, headings and lists of a PDF, as clean HTML you can paste anywhere.

More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.About the extension

How to convert PDF to HTML

  1. Drop the PDF.
  2. Nothing to choose.
  3. Press Convert and download the HTML.

What happens to your file

The PDF’s text layer is read into Fylane’s document structure — paragraphs, headings, lists — the same telling PDF to Markdown gives, and pandoc writes it as a standalone HTML page. Words and structure, not the page layout: no absolute-positioned boxes, no fonts embedded, nothing a screen reader cannot follow.

A scanned PDF has no text layer. It is refused by name — run OCR PDF on it first, then convert the result.

Questions

Will it look like the PDF?

No — it reads like the PDF. The structure is kept; the exact layout, columns and fonts are not, on purpose: that is what makes it usable on a web page.

Images?

Not yet — the text. Extract images from PDF hands them back separately.

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "convert",
    "options": {
      "to": "html"
    }
  }'

The same operation, convert — Documents into another document format: Office, text and HTML to PDF by default, or by `to` into docx, odt, rtf, txt, html, xlsx, ods, csv, pptx, odp, md or epub (Markdown and EPUB through pandoc). Images to WebP. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.