Webpage, HTML and PDF help

Pick by where the page is

If the page is open in your browser and you just need a copy of it, print it to PDF. Every browser does that without an extension, and Save a webpage as a PDF covers the dialog on desktop and on phones, plus what the printed file does and does not give you.

If the page has to become an accurate, checked document, save it as an HTML file first, then convert the file. Save a webpage as HTML covers the saving step in each browser, and How to convert HTML to PDF covers what the converter keeps, what it strips, and how it proves the text survived.

If the page is inside a PDF and you want HTML, How to convert PDF to HTML covers the tool's two layouts: preserved pages with selectable text, or a flowing article with headings, lists, tables and footnotes.

Why there is no box to paste a link into

A web address is a pointer to a page, not the page. A website to PDF converter that takes a URL has to fetch the page, and fetching happens on a server, which is exactly what this site does not have. Every tool here works on a file that is already on your machine and reads it in the browser tab, so nothing you convert is uploaded anywhere.

The honest route has one extra step: get the page out of the browser as a file, then convert the file. The saving step is one keystroke, and it is the price of a conversion that never sends your document to someone else's computer.

What the converters check before you get a file

HTML to PDF strips every script, frame, stylesheet link and remote reference before the markup is shown anything, lays the page out at the width of the PDF text column, and draws every character as selectable text. PDF to HTML preserves page geometry by default, with an optional flowing article that rebuilds headings, lists, tables and linked footnotes.

Both reopen what they wrote with a separate reader and count the text against the source before offering the download. A conversion that fails the count produces no file. That check is the difference between a converter that verifies and one that hopes.