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curstpriest · 11-02-2010, 09:33 PM

There are alternatives to acrobat that do what it does with HTML conversion, I just don't remember the names. I found one good one a while ago that cost 15$ or so for single license. Exported files as HTML3 as single pages or combined, images were not whole background images/page.. Can't remember the name of it now. Was one of the many PDF to HTML converter programs out there (There are so many!).

Also, you can probably get Acrobat Pro 9 for like 90$ if you can grab the student version. I would only suggest paying for it if you are in need of using it for other things, such as scanning books and converting them (OCR) or actually creating/reformatting PDFs.

NitroPDF is also a decent program that has some good features, but its OCR has issues.

When I have time later I'll look into working on writing a C/C++ PDF -> HTML converter if I can't find one if there is enough interest. Probably can just grab the old pdf2html source code that has been around forever.

11-02-2010, 09:33 PM	#9
curstpriest Confused Posts: 402 Karma: 5538 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Bay Area Device: Kindle DXG	There are alternatives to acrobat that do what it does with HTML conversion, I just don't remember the names. I found one good one a while ago that cost 15$ or so for single license. Exported files as HTML3 as single pages or combined, images were not whole background images/page.. Can't remember the name of it now. Was one of the many PDF to HTML converter programs out there (There are so many!). Also, you can probably get Acrobat Pro 9 for like 90$ if you can grab the student version. I would only suggest paying for it if you are in need of using it for other things, such as scanning books and converting them (OCR) or actually creating/reformatting PDFs. NitroPDF is also a decent program that has some good features, but its OCR has issues. When I have time later I'll look into working on writing a C/C++ PDF -> HTML converter if I can't find one if there is enough interest. Probably can just grab the old pdf2html source code that has been around forever. Last edited by curstpriest; 11-02-2010 at 09:37 PM.