PDF to HTML

Free and unlimited, with nothing to sign up for. You get a plain HTML file with no branding of ours injected into it, no trial countdown, and no cap on how many PDFs you convert — the work happens on your own device, and our paid statement converter pays for the page.

They are not. Your PDF is read and the HTML is built by JavaScript running in this tab, then saved locally. The only requests this page makes are for its own code, the PDF engine it pulls in when you press the button, and an anonymous usage count; your file is part of none of them.

A complete standalone document: a doctype, a head with a title taken from your filename, and a body of h1 to h3 headings, paragraphs, unordered lists, and preformatted code. Every list is a ul, including one that was numbered in the PDF — the numbers are stripped along with the bullets, so numbered clauses or steps arrive unnumbered. There is no CSS and no JavaScript inside it, so it renders in your browser's default styles, ready to open as it is or to lift the body out of and paste into a page or a CMS.

A scan holds an image of the page, so the characters this tool looks for are not in the file at all. Rather than hand you an HTML page with an empty body, it tells you the text layer is missing. The fix is OCR: recognise the text elsewhere first, then convert that PDF here.

Text is read line by line across the whole width of the page, which is right for one column and wrong for two — line one of the left column is joined to line one of the right. Tables lose their grid the same way and arrive as sentences, a page saved at an angle can come out in an unexpected order, and a title page in uniformly large type may produce no heading tag. Running heads and page numbers become paragraphs of their own, and a paragraph split over a page break arrives as two. Expect to tidy a complex document by hand.