Pdf2htmlex

Elixir library to convert PDF documents to HTML without losing text or format.

Requirements

The command line tool pdf2htmlex must be installed on your system and the binary must be on your PATH.

Installation

Add this to your mix.exs file, then run mix do deps.get, deps.compile:

  {:pdf2htmlex, "~> 0.1"}

Examples

  import Pdf2htmlex
  # Simplest conversion possible.
  open("/Users/ricn/pdfs/sample.pdf") |> convert_to!("/Users/ricn/html")

  # Set zoom ratio to 150 % and set horizontal and vertical dpi to 96 for images.
  open("/Users/ricn/pdfs/sample.pdf")
  |> zoom(1.5)
  |> hdpi(96)
  |> vdpi(96)
  |> convert_to!("/Users/ricn/html")

  # Set the maximum width to 640 pixels and maximum height to 480 pixels
  open("/Users/ricn/pdfs/sample.pdf")
  |> fit_width(640)
  |> fit_height(480)
  |> convert_to!("/Users/ricn/html")

  # Converts only page 1 to 10
  open("/Users/ricn/pdfs/sample.pdf")
  |> first_page(1)
  |> last_page(10)
  |> convert_to!("/Users/ricn/html")

  # For more options see the documentation

Credits

The following people have contributed ideas, documentation, or code to Pdf2htmlex:

Richard Nyström

Contributing