Re: batch convert pdf to html?

2013-01-25 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks so much for your answer, it sounds like exactly what I need! I followed the instructions, so that my "pdf2html" script appears in the Apple scripts menu. However, when I selected a folder of 68 pdf files and then ran the script, nothing seemed to happen. Is the output folder the pdf sourc

Re: batch convert pdf to html?

2013-01-25 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello, I'm not sure if that is the same util I used on linux but isn't there a -raw switch for that one? Gena On 25/01/2013 23:26, Esther wrote: Hi Alex, Dan, Gena, Annie, and Others, I can adapt Dan's suggestion of using pdftotext to an AppleScript by putting a wrapper around the command

Re: batch convert pdf to html?

2013-01-25 Thread Esther
Hi Alex, Dan, Gena, Annie, and Others, I can adapt Dan's suggestion of using pdftotext to an AppleScript by putting a wrapper around the command line instruction, so you can select files in Finder and run the AppleScript in order to create .html versions of the selected files in the same direct

Re: batch convert pdf to html?

2013-01-25 Thread -
In terminal one can use the pdftotext program found at: http://www.bluem.net/en/mac/packages/ The command to convert to html is: pdftotext file.pdf -htmlmeta The converted file has a html extension. The original files are retained as pdf. This can be put in a script with a loop to convert

Re: batch convert pdf to html?

2013-01-24 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Alex. I wonder if it would be possible to use calibre, and the convert function in terminal. Yes it should be possible to convert a folder of files at a time, but I can not get it to work, because I do not know enough about terminal. I would also be glad to get exactly the same to work. Bes

Re: batch convert pdf to html?

2013-01-24 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello Alex, I'm new to the Mac community but in my Linux days a simple bash script would soon do that job. By calling any of the pdf to text utils. HTH Gena On 24/01/2013 19:13, Alex Hall wrote: Hi all, I'm wondering if there's a program to batch convert PDFs to html on the mac? I'd need

batch convert pdf to html?

2013-01-24 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I'm wondering if there's a program to batch convert PDFs to html on the mac? I'd need line spacing preserved, and navigation could be made into headings. Is such a program available? I'd need it to be batch-capable because I have a folder of about 150 files I'd need to convert (they are