can I convert a pdf to html or docx using pandoc?

can I convert a pdf to html or docx using pandoc?

[Cifer Lee]

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I have converted a markdown file to pdf. 

I want to know whether I can convert a pdf to html or markdown or docx. 

I do: 
  
     pandoc -o test.html test.pdf

but I got the following error: 

pandoc: test.pdf: hGetContents: invalid argument (invalid byte sequence)


so,  can pandoc convert pdf to other formats?

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Re: can I convert a pdf to html or docx using pandoc?

[Joost Kremers]

On Wed, Feb 26 2014, Cifer Lee <mantianyu-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> so,  can pandoc convert pdf to other formats?

No, it can't. You can try pdftotext and pdftohtml, but keep in mind that
pdf is not a really document format but a rather page layout format, so
conversion can be problematic.

HTH

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Joost Kremers
Life has its moments

Re: can I convert a pdf to html or docx using pandoc?

[Cifer Lee]

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Thanks!

在 2014年2月26日星期三UTC+8下午11时32分03秒，Joost写道：
>
> On Wed, Feb 26 2014, Cifer Lee <mant...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > so,  can pandoc convert pdf to other formats? 
>
> No, it can't. You can try pdftotext and pdftohtml, but keep in mind that 
> pdf is not a really document format but a rather page layout format, so 
> conversion can be problematic. 
>
> HTH 
>
> -- 
> Joost Kremers 
> Life has its moments 
>
>

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Re: can I convert a pdf to html or docx using pandoc?

[Dirk Laurie]

2014-02-26 17:32 GMT+02:00 Joost Kremers <joostkremers-97jfqw80gc6171pxa8y+qA@public.gmane.org>:

> On Wed, Feb 26 2014, Cifer Lee <mantianyu-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> so,  can pandoc convert pdf to other formats?
>
> No, it can't. You can try pdftotext and pdftohtml, but keep in mind that
> pdf is not a really document format but a rather page layout format, so
> conversion can be problematic.

Those tools can produce HTML documents that look quite a lot
like the PDF, but they can't reproduce the HTML from which the
PDF was made. In particular, they treat all end-of-lines as hard.

Moreover, they use many HTML features that Pandoc does not
interpret, for example multi-file output, so putting their output into
Pandoc is disappointing.

The question is a bit like asking: can you recover a recipe from
tasting and chemically analyzing a stew?