Converting PDF to HTML through PHP

[deane034]

Does anyone have a class/script or Ideas on how to do this?

 

I am working on a data-extraction project, where I want to extract data tables and feed them into a Database. I have figured out a way to do this for HTML files. So I'm thinking if there is a way to convert PDFs to HTML.

 

Any help in this regard would be much appreciated.

[redarrow]

The closest thing is pdf2html which is a command line tool

 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdftohtml/

 

all i can help with sorry

 

If you need to actually read the .PDF files and convert them to browser-viewable HTML documents there is an open source PDF2HTML class that may help you - available @ phpclasses.org, but it has problems with converting/displaying elaborate graphics. The best web presentation solution though is probably to convert the .PDF to .XML documents to make them cross-platform compatible. From there they can be converted to HTML, Word, Excel, etc, depending upon your needs.

 

If you only need to make them downloadable - that is viewable to anyone with Acrobat Reader installed on their machine - why not just leave them in .PDF format and reference them to the other server?

[deane034]

redarrow Thanks for the link mate, ran across the same. will check it out and let you know if it's workable.

 

I cannot seem to find the PDF2HTML Class at the PHPclasses.org, do send me a link if you have one.

 

I can't just display the PDF files, Because I want to extract Data-tables out of it and manipulate them. So at a bare minimum I should be able to read the PDFs, I don't really care about Images.

 

If anyone knows how to read PDFs (forget the HTML part) that would be much appreciated..