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> Everything can be converted into one, but you can't reliably convert from it.

My favorite “workaround” for turning a pdf into html is to render the pdf with something like pdf.js; create a canvas, render contents, scale responsively, done. It works good enough for e.g. displaying book previews. Demo: https://merely.xyz/seven-photo-challenges/ (photo exercise ebook).



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