Re: [orca-list] Recommendation of PDF reader

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hi Edhoari

You're right, either I am tired or old (maybe both?)

try pdftohtml, part of the poppler package.

Best,

Didier  

On 18/02/2019 04:54, Edhoari Setiyoso wrote:
> Hi Didier,
>
> I tried pandoc and it cannot convert from PDF to html (or am I missing
> something?)
>
> Here's the output I get when converting from pdf docs
>
> convert $> pandoc -v
> pandoc 2.2.1
> Compiled with pandoc-types 1.17.5.1, texmath 0.11.1, skylighting 0.7.5
> Default user data directory: /home/edhoari/.pandoc
> Copyright (C) 2006-2018 John MacFarlane
> Web:  http://pandoc.org
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
> There is no warranty, not even for merchantability or fitness
> for a particular purpose.
> edhoari@debian
> convert $> pandoc Haltermanpythonbook.pdf  -s -o output.html
> Unknown reader: pdf
> Pandoc can convert to PDF, but not from PDF.
> convert $> 
>
>
> Best Regards
> Didier Spaier writes:
>
> > pandoc is very good at converting pdf to html, just
> > remember to use the -s option to get the metadada
> > including the headings.
> >
> > Else, atril is a good pdf reader.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Didier
> >
> > On 17/02/2019 14:37, Edhoari Setiyoso via orca-list wrote:
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > > Can anyone recommend good PDF reader for linux?
> > > Or is there a good way to convert pdf to html docs?
> > >
> > > I've tried pdf2htmlex but the result is plain html that has no
> > > headings.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions is welcome.
> > >
> > > Best Regards