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?