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Today we present 10 HTML to PDF converters with range of functionalites associated with each one. Lets get to the list:

  1. Convert HTML to PDF Online - This website is the most used website for PDF conversion of a webpage. It provides multiple input methods like URL, File Upload or even directly typing in into its WYSIWYG editors. It has a browser add-on which means you can PDF-fy any page while you are browsing. It also provides API so that you can convert any URL into PDF on your server using your favorite server-side language.

pdfcrowd

  1. HTML to PDF - Although this website only deals with URLs, but it has few other exceptional features. It allows to decide the page size having options like A4 and Letter, portrait and landscape mode, and with options for Javascript running, Image Loading etc. It definitely has more features but works for URLs only.

htmlpdf

  1. PDFaid - This website is no different but has other features like Scaling, Rotating, Repairing and Compressing the PDFs apart from conversion task. So this means that you can fit in multiple pages in one page by scaling the page size down.

pdfaid

  1. Web2PDF - This one has a unique feature, ie it allows to convert a page to PDF by just emailing. Yes, simply send an email to submit@web2pdfconvert.com with subject as Convert and the url in the body of the email and you will receive the PDF version soon. Best part if the PDF remains saved in the email and you don't lose them.

web2pdf

  1. Able2Extract - It has a downloadable version as well. But the cloud version exists as well. So while you are online, you can use the cloud based one but if there is no internet which is common in developing countries, you can use the downloadble version too. The downloadble version also helps in privacy. You can easily convert your favorite texts into pdf without uploading them to an unknown remote server.

able2extract

  1. HTML2PDF - Whoa ! this one provides an SDK as well. It is a PHP sdk which supports, CSS2 and CSS3 as well. This means it is capable of converting all new CSS3 overloaded websites with stunning graphics and color variants spread across its page. Apart from that it has API too if you don't want the conversion on your server. And of course the upload and convert version exists as well.

html2pdf.co.uk

  1. PDFmyURL - If you are looking for a corporate plan, this one is a winner. It has a fremium model. Apart from conversion, it does encryption, water-marking, adding headers and footers to the page. It gives you the downloadble link of the PDF which you can download/share with anyone. It also has API system.

pdfmyurl

  1. Online-Convert - This converter has the option of OCR. This means if the language of the webpage is not known, it can recognize it and hence identify the right encoding to be used in the PDF. This means it doesn't save the page as image. This helps you to search a piece of text in the PDF as well. Checkout the other converters from this website as well which include DOC , DOCx, PPT, PPTX, FLASH etc.

onlineconvert

  1. CoolUtils - CoolUtils provide a customizable converter where header,footer can be specified but also the type of the out put file can be specified. This means that you can convert to PDF, EXCEL, PPT, DOCX all at the same time without any hassle. While the DOCX versionc an be used for editing, the PDF version can be used to read on laptops/tablets. This website can also convert the pages into JPG and PNG. This means you can make memes out of the images by manipulating them in a graphic editing software. They also have tons of other converters. Some the formats age too old and hence might be useless to work on, but converting those formats to PDF will be helpful.

coolutils

  1. PDFOnline - This converter promises a lot of features like graphic quality retention, table structure, font recognition and multi-column pages. So it means, this website is good for making magazines from the HTML versions. It can also help you save newspaper cuts which you struggle to do because of default copy-paste provided by browsers as they are optimized for single column.

pdfonline

I think there can be few more in this list but as of now these are enough when compared to the number of features. Each one has some unique features and it would be useless to declare a winner. We will update the list if someone beats them with new features.

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