Which mode should I choose?

Choose Clean HTML to reuse the text on a website or read it on a phone. Choose Keep layout to get a browser copy that looks like the PDF pages.

Yes, optionally. In Clean HTML, images embedded in the PDF are added after their page text (JPEG 2000 and fax-compressed scans are left out). In Keep layout, each page is drawn as an image under the text. Images go inside the HTML file, or into an images folder in a ZIP when they are large.

Will the HTML look exactly like my PDF?

Keep layout with page images is the closest. Clean HTML is meant to reflow, so it keeps the structure (headings, paragraphs, lists, links) rather than the exact look.

Does it work with scanned PDFs?

A scan is a picture with no text, so there is nothing to convert. Run OCR PDF first to add a text layer, then convert.

Are tables converted to HTML tables?

No. Table cells come out as lines of text. Check tables after converting.

No. The PDF is read and converted in your browser. It never leaves your device.

PDF to HTML Converter

Turn a PDF into an HTML file you can open in any browser or paste into a website. Choose clean HTML that flows like a web page, or a layout copy that keeps every page as it looked. The conversion happens in your browser, so the PDF is never uploaded.

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Will this convert my PDF?

Documents, reports, letters and articles made on a computer

Headings, paragraphs, lists and links come through as clean HTML.

Brochures and designed pages

Use Keep layout with page images to keep the look, with selectable text on top. It is for viewing, not editing.

Tables and multi-column layouts

Not rebuilt as HTML tables or columns; the text comes out line by line.

A scanned PDF or photo

There is no text to convert. Add a text layer with OCR first.

OCR PDF

A password-protected PDF

Remove the password first, then convert.

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Features

Clean HTML: headings, paragraphs, bulleted and numbered lists, bold and italic
Web links from the PDF are kept as real links
Keep layout: text placed where it was on each page, with the page image underneath
One self-contained .html file (images inside), or a ZIP when images are large
Convert all pages or a range
Preview the result before you download, and copy the HTML code

When people convert PDF to HTML

Publishing on a website or blog

Get headings and paragraphs as HTML to paste into a CMS instead of retyping a PDF.

Readable on phones

Clean HTML reflows to any screen width, unlike a PDF page that needs zooming.

Viewing without a PDF reader

The layout copy opens in any browser and keeps text selectable and searchable.

Clean HTML or keep layout?

Clean HTML

Text is grouped into paragraphs by the space between lines. Larger text becomes headings, ranked by how much bigger it is than the body text. Lines that start with a bullet or a number become lists. Web links in the PDF are kept.

Tables and multi-column pages are read line by line, so check those parts. Images, when included, are placed after the text of the page they come from.

Keep layout

Each page becomes a box the size of the PDF page, with every piece of text positioned where it was. With page images on, the rendered page sits underneath (figures, colours, drawings) and the text on top is invisible but selectable, the way PDF viewers do it.

This copy is for viewing, not editing like a normal web page. Fonts are not embedded, so text uses a similar font installed on the device.

Safe output

All text from the PDF is escaped, so a PDF containing code cannot run it in the HTML.
Only web and email links are kept; JavaScript and file links are dropped.
The HTML contains no scripts.
Scanned PDF with no text? Run OCR PDF first. Just need plain text? Use PDF to Text or PDF to Markdown.