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[corrupt]

Hi new,
Have a look at Loop, FilePattern in the AutoHotkey Help Documentation. You could use the Loop command to find all *.pdf files and use the Run or RunWait command to automate processing the files one by one.

[PinkBears]

Hi there,

Further to new's problem and corrupts answer i was just wondering whether the answer had worked for new?

As i have the same problem and was just wondering whether it wos worth trying it out or not.

[automaticman]

I was looking for a tool to split bigger pdf documents into smaller chunks like e.g. 50 pages each and this might help. Great, thanks for the link.

(For the interested: Some applications don't accept bigger .pdf documents as input, so the solution: make smaller chunks and convert each separately overcoming the tools size limitations.)

[rani]

pdf to html

in pdftk,
is there an option to convert pdf to html ?

the pdf to text I found in xpdf lib, and it work ok.

if not ,is there other command line tool to do that ?

[SoLong&Thx4AllTheFish]

Based on XPDF,
http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/

[rani]

Hi HugoV

I tried to run the pdftohtml but got an error:
Page-1
'gswin32c' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Error: Failed to launch Ghostscript!

seems, the pdftohtml.exe is not enough, or some other missing software.

do you know on some other pdftohtml command line ?

[SoLong&Thx4AllTheFish]

Ghostscript
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
(I've used it and it works, but you may have to work at it)

If I recall correctly a "pdftohtml" is also included in the google desktop search application (at least it was at some point, don't know if this is still the case as I don't use it) if you have it look for pdf*.exe in the google desktop dirs, it should be there somewhere.

Note: if you want to work with pdfs:
- get pdtfk
- get xpdf
- get pdttohtml
- get ghostscript
- get PDFCreator

[rani]

PDF creator

the pdf creator convert html to PDF , as tagged or untagged PDF ?
or it converts to PDF as image ?

meas:
I can extract text from the created PDF ?

[SoLong&Thx4AllTheFish]

PDFCreator converts anything you print to PDF, yes you can extract text later IF the source wasn't an image to begin with. Not sure what you mean
by tagged but it won't make URLs in Word documents clickable in the PDF
nor does it create PDF bookmarks or anything like that.

[rani]

sorry for asking again,

I still didn't found the pdf2html converter,

from google, is there some google doc's api
so I can download it and make own pdf's to htmls ?

[SoLong&Thx4AllTheFish]

If you have Google desktop installed:

c:\Program Files\Google\Google Desktop Search\pdftotext.exe
(or where ever you have installed GDS)

usage:

pdftotext -htmlmeta sample.pdf
--> will generate sample.html

follow the link on the URL I gave you before, leads to:
http://sourceforge.n...ects/pdftohtml/
download the windows binary, unpack the tar.gz file

usage:

pdftohtml.exe sample.pdf
--> will generate 3 html files (frameset, TOC and content)

read the doc for more options

[rani]

I tried the (in xpdf lib):
pdftotext -htmlmeta sample.pdf -> sample.html

and got same result as :
pdftotext -layout sample.pdf -> sample.txt

means :
the html have no the same 'look' (more or less) as the original sample.pdf
no frames or some colors

[rani]

I tried also the pdftohtml.exe

and got worser reuslts,
the text extracted is shown one under another, without keeping any original layout , of .pdf

[SoLong&Thx4AllTheFish]

What do you want, the HTML to look the same as the PDF?

Again read the documentation, see the options, try them and
SEE that you can have the HTML look like the PDF, or not
if you wish. Use the -c option

pdftohtml -c sample.pdf
-> sample.html will look like sample.pdf (not 100% but pretty close)
unless you have a very complicated PDF. Again READ the documentation
As you can see even google uses it so why isn't it good enough for you :wink:

IF you need even better or more options you will have to buy something

Sourceforge version:

pdftohtml version 0.39 http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/,
based on Xpdf version 3.00
Copyright 1999-2003 Gueorgui Ovtcharov and Rainer Dorsch
Copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC

Usage: pdftohtml [options] [ ]
-f : first page to convert
-l : last page to convert
-q : don't print any messages or errors
-h : print usage information
-help : print usage information
-p : exchange .pdf links by .html
-c : generate complex document
-i : ignore images
-noframes : generate no frames
-stdout : use standard output
-zoom : zoom the pdf document (default 1.5)
-xml : output for XML post-processing
-hidden : output hidden text
-nomerge : do not merge paragraphs
-enc : output text encoding name
-dev : output device name for Ghostscript (png16m, jpeg etc)
-v : print copyright and version info
-opw : owner password (for encrypted files)
-upw : user password (for encrypted files)


GOOGLE version:

pdftohtml version 0.39 http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/,
based on Xpdf version 3.00
Copyright 1999-2003 Gueorgui Ovtcharov and Rainer Dorsch
Copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC

Usage: pdftohtml [options] [ ]
-f : first page to convert
-l : last page to convert
-q : don't print any messages or errors
-h : print usage information
-help : print usage information
-p : exchange .pdf links by .html
-c : generate complex document
-i : ignore images
-noframes : generate no frames
-stdout : use standard output
-zoom : zoom the pdf document (default 1.5)
-xml : output for XML post-processing
-hidden : output hidden text
-nomerge : do not merge paragraphs
-enc : output text encoding name
-dev : output device name for Ghostscript (png16m, jpeg etc)
-v : print copyright and version info
-opw : owner password (for encrypted files)
-upw : user password (for encrypted files)