Thanks for the link, davido. I spent about 2 minutes searching and turned up dozens of commercial products to do it (many with trial periods), but nothing free. adobe also has an online form where you can enter a URL of a pdf file and they will translate it to html.

Update: never mind, I thought davido had found actual downloadable perl code.

Update: there was an open source tool that makes an image for each page; doubt that meets the OP's requirements, though.

Update: here is a GPL pdf2html converter, written in C++.
<joke>Now all you need is a C++ to perl converter.</joke>

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

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