PDF to HTML Conversion: Having a Usable Web Document

In most of the digital libraries and Websites the artifacts are available in portable document format (PDF). Most of the users read online these PDF documents in their daily activities and face problems while reading multi column PDF documents. This paper describes the design of a PDF to HTML converter to ease the online reading activity by providing a usable Web document. PDF to HTML converter, is designed to enhance usability of PDF documents. Our converter presents the document content in a more usable way by following Web usability guidelines. It reduces time and effort required to read PDF documents online.