What is the best solution to convert PDF documents to be viewed in the browser as HTML? The site has several PDF documents and the visitor can click on view as HTML and this should be viewed on the screen as an HTML file.
Standard website running PHP, Linux, Apache.
In Acrobat, click File/Export/HTML, and then choose which version of HTML you want.
Have you considered keeping the PDF data in a database and then either dynamically creating the PDF or the html page depending on what the visitors select?
If you have command line access at your hosting provider, there is a utility called pdftohtml inside of the poppler_utils package.
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
Looks quite easy to use, have not called it from inside of PHP, but it should work.
pdftohtml works fine : fast, stable but the html result is ugly at best. I have used it for quite some time for a web site that has many job resumes.
It is a good solution for extracting textual content however.
I would give the scribd API a try
http://www.scribd.com/developers/api
or the google apps document API. GOogle does a great job a displaying and converting pdf files