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Pdf2htmlEX – Convert PDF to HTML without losing text or format

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Re: Pdf2htmlEX – Convert PDF to HTML without losing text or format

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Post by SigmundA »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #13

Can anyone recommend an equally good opposite (HTML to PDF)? wkhtmltopdf [0] is probably the most popular, but it's also ridiculously buggy. 0: https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/

http://phantomjs.org/ is the best so far in my experience since it handles all the client side javascript properly.

The PDF's it outputs are full vector not just rasters, it the same engine used in Chrome to view PDF's and print web pages from my understanding.

Re: Pdf2htmlEX – Convert PDF to HTML without losing text or format

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Post by coolwanglu »

nwh wrote: post #6
coolwanglu wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I heard that with careful optimization on the server side and a clever JS may solve this. So far the default UI just demostrates the ability of reading-while-downloading. The idea is that now the document becomes more controllable and accessible, say you can put Google Analytics in your resume written in LaTeX; or maybe an social reading service, where you can comment, annotate and share. Unlike PDF viewers, web brow…

> social reading service I truly wish there was at least one ground that hadn't been touched by "social" crap.

Usually I don't use social services, at least not "socially" (e.g. twitter as public text messaging). IMHO whether the service is crap or not, depends on what kind of stuff that it encourages you to do, either finding useful information, or playing boring games and pay for higher rankings.

Still like old Google Reader with its OLD social features.

Re: Pdf2htmlEX – Convert PDF to HTML without losing text or format

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Post by crazysim »

coolwanglu wrote: post #14
alcuadrado wrote: post #12

Can't Mozilla's pdf.js be used to get the same result? Great results anyway!

You don't want to rely on the computing power at the client side, do you? :)

I guess one possible setup would be pdf.js running on server-side and having its output captured. One advantage of this, from what I can see, is that there would probably be fewer external dependencies than this setup.
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