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I have always considered this to be a (near) mission impossible.

It involves at least the following steps (each of which is a daunting task in itself):

Parsing the PDF document. A module like CAM::PDF might help you here but it pre-supposes a good understanding of the internal structure of the PDF document and good knowledge of the PDF object model.
Building an internal (Perl) data structure of the document; so you know what each pience is and where each piece goes on which page.
Building the HTML page (and probably some CSS as well) to mimick the PDF-layout. This will be more difficult than one thinks as the HTML document format actually is very bad in placing "things" at exactly the spot you want. The whole idea of HTML (and CSS) is that the laoyout is "flowing" and will adapt itself (more or less) graciously to the output method of the client viewing it.

So making an HTML page out of a PDF document is, like putting a square peg in a round hole: difficult to achieve in a clean way and it will never look good.

Unless of course you cheat and embed the PDF-document in your HTML page.

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

In reply to Re: Need Help for Convert PDF to HTML by CountZero
in thread Need Help for Convert PDF to HTML by satzbu

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