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Pdf to html convertor

I am looking for the best accurate tool to convert from pdf to clean w3 html file

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It is impossible to convert arbitrary PDF into HTML. PDF is a page layout language and can contain material at arbitrary coordinates.

There are a number of tools that manage to extract text and some of the graphics into HTML components but it is usually lossy. I use PDFBox (Apache) and pdftotext

The phrase I heard and popularize is "turning PDF into XML(HTML) is like trying to turn hamburgers into cows".

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