Will the HTML look like the original PDF?

No — and that's intentional. PDFs are fixed-layout; HTML reflows. The conversion preserves the content and its reading order, not the visual design. You get semantic, restyleable markup rather than a brittle pixel-positioned imitation.

Are images from the PDF included?

No, the output is text-only. To recover the pictures, run the same file through the Extract Images from PDF tool and add them back into the HTML where you want them.

Are headings detected?

The current converter wraps each extracted line as a paragraph and labels each page section — it doesn't infer heading levels from font sizes. After conversion, promoting titles to h2/h3 tags is a quick find-and-replace job in the downloaded file.

What about scanned PDFs?

Scans contain no extractable text. Run the document through the Searchable PDF (OCR) tool first to add a text layer, then convert it here.

PDF → HTML

Convert a PDF file to HTML markup.

Drop PDF files here or browse

Max 100MB per file

About PDF to HTML

Publishing PDF content on the web means getting it out of fixed pages and into markup that reflows, scales on phones, and can be indexed properly. Convertora's PDF-to-HTML tool extracts the text of each page and produces a complete, self-contained HTML document — ready to open in a browser, paste into a CMS, or feed into a content pipeline.

The output is deliberately clean: a single HTML file with light built-in styling, one section per page with a 'Page N' label, and the text reconstructed line by line into paragraphs. There's no tag soup, no absolute positioning, no font spaghetti — which makes the markup easy to edit and restyle. Extraction runs locally via PDF.js; the document never leaves your browser.

How to use it

1Upload a PDF (up to 100MB).
2Text is extracted page by page, with fragments grouped into lines by their position on the page.
3A standalone HTML document is generated: minimal embedded CSS, a section per page, and each line wrapped in a paragraph tag with special characters properly escaped.
4Review the markup in the preview box, then copy it to the clipboard or download it as an .html file named after the PDF.

Common use cases

Migrating PDF-only content (old newsletters, reports, documentation) into a website or CMS.
Producing a screen-reader-friendly, reflowing version of a fixed-layout document.
Feeding PDF text into a static site generator or content pipeline that expects HTML.
Grabbing a structured-text starting point for rewriting a document for the web.

Frequently asked questions

Tips

The generated file is self-contained (styling included), so you can double-click it to proofread the result in your browser before publishing.
If you only need raw text without any markup, PDF to Text is the simpler tool.

100% private — runs in your browser

Convertora processes everything on your device using JavaScript and WebAssembly. Files never leave your browser, are never uploaded to a server, and are never seen by us or anyone else. The moment you close the tab, the data is gone — there is no temporary cloud copy, no log entry, no retained backup.

Because the work happens locally, processing speed depends on your device — but there are no rate limits, no daily caps, and no file size restrictions beyond what your browser can handle in memory. No signup, no account, no payment. The tool works the same in incognito mode, on a corporate network, or after the page has loaded once, even with the network disconnected.