Forget about it.

That's the simplest answer I can give you, if your general goal is to convert arbitrary PDF to HTML pages. PDF is an application of PostScript, a programming language, and to properly convert PostScript output to HTML, you will have to write a PostScript renderer like GhostScript, something which is not easy. This is why you won't find any "general" application to convert PDF to HTML.

If you only have a very specific class of PDF files, like, say, the output of exactly one application, then you might be able to use some of the above mentioned modules to extract the data form the PDF and then use that data to fill an HTML template to produce HTML files.

Even this possible solution is not easy, and personally, I wouldn't bother with it, as PDF readers are already available for most platforms people tend to read stuff on.

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How can I convert a pdf to html with PDF::Extract? by Corion
in thread Can I convert a pdf to html with PDF::Extract?? by Anonymous Monk

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