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Convert PDF to HTML without losing text or format.

22 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 4 stories, 18 comments · first 2012-10-04 · latest 2026-08-25

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  1. …developers of pdf2htmlEX, especially the creator coolwanglu Additional links: - original repo: https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX - popular fork: https://github.com/pdf2htmlex/pdf2htmlex
    comment by duguyue100 · 2026-08-25
  2. …ever want to learn anything (much less RISC-V assembly) like this. <!-- Created by pdf2htmlEX ( https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex ) --> The PDF itself nowhere to be found, although I expect one will be generated by hackish means and…
    comment by snvzz · 2023-07-08 · in RISC-V Assembly Programming
  3. …has hyperlinks, and we can seemlessly navigate bewteen PDF and HTML pages in the browser. [1] https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX
    comment by leephillips · 2022-11-29 · in Ask HN: Why has PDF not been replaced with HTML5?
  4. For non-reflow conversion there is pdf2htmlEX: https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX is discontinued but there is development under https://github.com/pdf2htmlEX/pdf2htmlEX Demo: https://pdf2htmlex.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/doc/tb108wang.html
    comment by Klasiaster · 2021-09-16 · in Show HN: Paper to HTML Converter
  5. …amazing demonstration, I don’t really understand the purpose, when you can just distribute the PDF. https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX
    comment by leephillips · 2020-12-17 · in Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs
  6. I'm parsing PDFs and extracting tabular data - I am using this library https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX to convert the PDF into HTML and then parsing thereafter. It works reasonably well for my use-case but there are all kinds of…
    comment by fareesh · 2020-09-14 · in What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
  7. Looking at the HTML source, it appears they've used pdf2htmlEX: https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX / http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/ -- the first demo there (which is also from a scan) also seems to have the same property you…
    comment by svat · 2019-02-27 · in Computer Software (1984)
  8. Best one I have found. https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX
    comment by rpedela · 2017-11-02 · in Show HN: Ready-to-use API to convert any web page to PDF using headless Chrome
  9. …papers with tags. It also automatically converts pdf to HTML using a library called pdf2html: https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX
    comment by strin · 2017-10-24 · in Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
  10. https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX
    comment by gpvos · 2017-01-17 · in Some Funny Things Happened on the Way to the Moon (2002)
  11. The HTML source contains this: <!-- Created by pdf2htmlEX ( https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex ) -->
    comment by yorwba · 2016-04-07 · in Free “Deep Learning” Textbook by Goodfellow and Bengio Now Finished
  12. pdf2htmlEX ( https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX ) would be another route if you aren't concerned about preserving the semantics of the markup. Obviously you would to go LaTeX -> PDF -> HTML5. It maintains the paginated style and…
    comment by rmorlok · 2015-09-21 · in Latex to HTML5 Conversion for Scientific Papers
  13. …Instead of client-side conversion this is a server-side one-time conversion from PDF to HTML5. [0] https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX
    comment by le_lenny_face · 2015-03-18 · in PDF Viewing
  14. Looks like they used pdf2htmlEX ( https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX )
    comment by felixr · 2014-08-24 · in Deep Learning: An MIT Press book in preparation
  15. Sidenote, the PDF-->HTML tool used in the above link is awesome! https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX
    comment by ivan_ah · 2014-03-08 · in IFT 725 – Introduction to Neural Networks
  16. …the info! 2nd & 3rd are in the future plan, as I'm still working on accuracy and speed. And #115( https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX/issues/115 ) is about the 2nd issue. About the first one, I've not got an elegant solution yet,…
    comment by coolwanglu · 2013-05-06 · in Pdf2htmlEX – Convert PDF to HTML without losing text or format
  17. There is a very good pdf-to-html converter at [0], so it's a two-step process. [0] https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX
    comment by Toshio · 2012-11-24 · in Show HN: Docverter, the hosted document conversion service, is now open source
  18. Also relevant: https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX
    comment by kghose · 2012-10-04 · in Sphinxtr: Creating a Portable PhD Thesis