Re:ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format
by 101008 on Friday December 22, 2023 @04:21PM
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Is there an open source tool to convert any PDF to something like this?
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Re:ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format
by mcpherrinm on Friday December 22, 2023 @04:39PM
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It sounds like (from the shout-out in the post) they're using https://math.nist.gov/~BMiller/LaTeXML/ to convert the paper's LaTeX into HTML, not from PDF.
The most versatile tool I know of for converting various document formats, including PDF to HTML, is the oss ebook tool Calibre: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/conversion.html
I have seen https://pdfbox.apache.org/ used for extracting text from PDFs for analysis, but you won't get HTML output.