PDF to HTML Converter

PDF to HTML turns a PDF into a web page you can open in any browser, publish on a site or edit in a code editor. You choose between two very different results: a clean, reflowable article that adapts to phones and wide screens, or an exact copy of every page with the text still selectable. The conversion runs entirely in your browser, so the document is never uploaded, and the output is one self-contained .html file with its styles built in.

Two output styles

• Clean, reflowable text. The converter reads the position and size of every line, measures the body text size and turns noticeably larger lines into headings (h2 and h3). The remaining lines are joined into real paragraphs, so you do not get a hard line break every few words the way you do when copying from a PDF. The page is styled for comfortable reading: a limited line length, a system font and a thin separator where each PDF page ended. This mode keeps text only; pictures and charts are not included.
• Exact page layout. Every PDF page becomes a fixed-size block on the web page, and each run of text is placed at its original position. With Include page graphics switched on, the page is also drawn as a background image, so photos, logos, charts and colors look like the PDF while the text layer on top can still be selected, copied and found with Ctrl+F. Switch the option off to get a lighter file with visible text only. The layout also prints one PDF page per sheet.

How to convert a PDF to HTML

1. Drop your PDF onto the page or click to choose it (files up to 100 MB).
2. Pick Clean, reflowable text or Exact page layout. For the layout mode, decide whether to include page graphics.
3. Keep All pages or choose Specific pages and type a range such as 1-3, 5, 8-.
4. Click Convert to HTML and download the .html file. The page title is taken from the PDF's own title, or from the file name if it has none.

Which mode should you choose?

• Publishing an article, a policy or a manual online: use the reflowable mode. The result reads well on mobile, is easy to paste into a CMS and gives search engines real headings and paragraphs.
• Keeping the look of a brochure, a menu or a form: use the exact layout with page graphics. It looks like the original and stays searchable.
• Grabbing the text of a few pages as markup: convert only that page range in reflowable mode and copy the paragraphs you need.
• Email or offline sharing: because images are embedded directly in the file, the layout version works without any extra folders, though it is larger than the text-only version.

Good to know

• The converter works with PDFs that contain real text. A scanned document only holds pictures of pages, so the reflowable mode finds nothing to convert. Run it through PDF OCR first.
• Headings are detected from font size, not from tags inside the PDF, so a large pull quote may become a heading. The HTML is plain and easy to tidy up by hand.
• Tables, bullet lists and bold words are not rebuilt as HTML structures. If you need them, PDF to Markdown detects lists, tables, emphasis and links, and Markdown converts to HTML in almost any editor.
• Password-protected PDFs have to be unlocked first with Remove PDF Password.

Private by design

WoowPDF reads the PDF with a PDF engine that runs on your own device. Nothing is sent to a server, there is no account and no watermark, and the file is ready the moment the conversion finishes. That makes the tool suitable for internal reports, contracts and other documents you would rather not upload. If you only need the words without any markup, the PDF text extractor is the quicker option.