Read contents of PDF file and display in a html format

Question

I want to convert the PDF document to HTML format. I have no idea of from where to start.

Praveen N · Answer

It's complicated for sure, but why do you want it? Best would be convert PDF to text file and later text to PDF. .aspx Page @ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %> xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > id = "Head1" runat = "server" > Untitled Page id = "form1" runat = "server" > ID = "FileUpload1" runat = "server" /> /> ID = "btnRead" Text = "Convert" runat = "Server" OnClick = " btnRead_Click " /> /> ID = "txtContent" runat = "Server" TextMode = "MultiLine" Height = "376px" Width = "411px" > .cs class using System ; using System . Collections . Generic ; using System . Linq ; using System . Web ; using System . Web . UI ; using System . Web . UI . WebControls ; using System . IO ; public partial class _Default : System . Web . UI . Page { protected void Page_Load ( object sender , EventArgs e ) { } protected void btnRead_Click ( object sender , EventArgs e ) { string appPath = Request . ApplicationPath ; System . Diagnostics . Process p = new System . Diagnostics . Process (); p . StartInfo . Arguments = " -raw -htmlmeta" + " " + FileUpload1 . PostedFile . FileName + " " + "D:\output.htm" ; ; p . StartInfo . FileName = Page . MapPath ( "pdftotext.exe" ); p . StartInfo . UseShellExecute = false ; p . StartInfo . CreateNoWindow = false ; p . StartInfo . RedirectStandardOutput = false ; p . Start (); p . WaitForExit (); System . Threading . Thread . Sleep ( 3000 ); txtContent . Text = ReadFile ( "D:\output.htm" ); } public string ReadFile ( string s ) { StreamReader sr = new StreamReader ( s ); string strReturn = sr . ReadToEnd (); return strReturn ; } } later http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/saurabhnandu/TexttoHTMLParser12032005072354AM/TexttoHTMLParser.aspx OR the alternate way to do Download the dll Aspose.Pdf.dll from http://www.aspose.com/docs/display/pdfnet/SaveFormat+Enumerationand rest assured only two lines of code in your code-behind file :) // Open the source PDF document Document pdfDocument = new Document( "input.pdf" ); // Save the file to HTML doc.Save( "Output.html" , SaveFormat.Html); Regards, Praveen Nelge

Jaganathan Bantheswaran · Answer

Why do you want to convert to HTML rather than display PDF file as it is in Browser?