[Tex/LaTex] How to convert HTML to LaTeX

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I would like a way to convert a document from HTML to LaTeX on a Windows platform. What is my best option?

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What your best option would be depends on a lot on what your needs are. Are you only trying to import the structure, or exact look, or what? How important is it that the resulting document really be done properly?

Anyway, here are a number of things to try.

AbiWord: an open source word processor that can import HTML or similar formats and export LaTeX. (Be sure to install the extra export plugins when installing; the default install doesn't include a LaTeX export, but it can easily be chosen.)

Writer2LaTeX: An openoffice plugin for exporting to LaTeX; Open office supports HTML import of course (Though W2L can handle .odt to .tex even without Open Office installed; but then converting .html to .odt might be trickier.)

rtf2latex2e: as its name implies, converts RTF to LaTeX; so you'd need some way to convert HTML to RTF (though that's relatively easy, can be done with most any word processor).

pandoc: Haskell program for converting between various mark-up languages, including HTML and LaTeX

html2latex: Perl script for such conversions (I've never tried it but plan on doing so soon)

htmltolatex Java program along similar lines (Again, I haven't tried it.)

Even with all those options, however, personally, if it was something I truly cared about doing right, simply transferring over the plain text and redoing everything manually would still be my solution of choice. The above are just quick fixes for a document of relatively little importance, or when having it in LaTeX in addition to HTML is just a matter of convenience.

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You can use text4ht, as @Raphink says. However, I'm not familiar with the mk4ht command. On Windows I use htlatex alone and it works most of the time. Before I address the solution, here are some assumptions:

You have htlatex in your environment path. That means, that in a command prompt you can use it just by typing htlatex, and it will execute the command. If you don't have it in your environment variables, you should use the full path to the command.
You should be in the directory in which you have your .tex files. You need to move using cd /d F:\path\to\your\files (The /d option changes the drive in case is different from the one you are in now).

So, the solution is quite simple, you have to type in the command prompt: htlatex file.tex html "" -dhtml "--interaction=nonstopmode". So what it does? you may ask. The file.tex is your file, html is the output format, -dhtml is the directory in which the output should be written, in this case the directory is named html, you can change it to anything, for example, -dmydir, and finally the "--interaction=nonstopmode" is a parameter passed to the compilation so it doesn't stop for answers.

If you want, you can use an script I made, it is in here. You can place it in your directory and just execute it, or place it somewhere in your environment path and use it anywhere.

[Tex/LaTex] Convert LaTeX to HTML

Using PDF as an intermediate format when converting from LaTeX to HTML is not a very good idea. LaTeX and HTML are both mostly structural markup languages, which means you use them to describe the document structure (sections, emphasize, formulas etc.), whereas PDF is mostly about the representation of your document on the screen or paper. When converting LaTeX to PDF, you lose much of the structural information, and it cannot be successfully recovered by conversion from PDF to HTML.

It is much better to convert LaTeX directly to HTML. There are number of ways (WayBack Archive) how to do that, one I would recommend is by using htlatex. It is probably already part of your TeX distribution, is very powerful and flexible, and its use can be as simple as running

htlatex mydocument.tex

If you tell us more about your environment (which operating system do you use, what is your TeX distribution, your text editor/LaTeX IDE, how you generated the PDF file etc.) we may be able to give you more details on how to use htlatex.

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