Hey everyone! I'm trying to figure out how to convert a PDF file into HTML using Python. It's really important for me to maintain the formatting, like bold and italic text, font sizes, new lines, and tab spaces. Ideally, I want to render this HTML directly in the UI and be able to create a new PDF if there are updates on the UI. Does anyone have suggestions on libraries—open-source or paid— that can help me achieve this accurately?
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I came across a resource that suggests using Spire.PDF for this task. It might fit your needs, but I haven't tried it myself. Check it out!
Definitely a tricky task! But for PDF handling in Python, pdfminer.six is worth checking out. It's a well-maintained library that many developers swear by to extract content from PDFs.
Although this is a Python forum, for a web project, Mozilla's PDF.js can be a great option. It works well as a PDF viewer and can be used as a library too!
Converting PDFs can be pretty challenging since the format is so complex. Just a heads up, it's not going to be straightforward!
If you really want to keep the PDF’s layout and formatting, give pdf2htmlEX a try. It's not a Python tool per se, but you can run it through Python using subprocess. There might also be some Python bindings available!
You could consider converting the PDF to Markdown first, which you can then render as HTML in your front-end. A useful tool I found is called markitdown; you can find it on GitHub!
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