PDF2SVG

PDF2SVG is a command-line application that can be used to convert PDF documents to graphical files with the SVG format, which can be then published on the web. It comes bundled with practical conversion options for keeping the original layout of the PDF files, as well as including hyperlinks, colors and photos into the SVG files, to name a few examples.

The tool requires no installation since you can unzip the downloaded file and call PDF2SVG's process from a command prompt window right away. The fact that the program doesn't have a graphical interface might put off users who aren't familiar with the console environment. Nevertheless, PDF2SVG has intuitive commands that can be displayed on the screen by typing just its name, without any arguments.

The syntax is pdf2svg.exe <options> <filename>. Besides specifying the name and extension of the PDF file that will be taken into account for the conversion procedure, you can indicate a list of names for files and folders to process, if you're interested in converting multiple PDF documents at the same time.

The application can be instructed to include files from any subfolders, remove the DID declaration at the top of the SVG file, compress the output SVG files using SVGZ, as well as embed all images and fonts instead of saving them as external files. It's also possible to disable the conversion of font data to SVG, deactivate the mapping of text to public Unicode region, remove hexadecimal escape strings for the glyph's Unicode attribute, as well as use SVG instead of Opentype fonts, among other options.

Taking into account its long list of options, PDF2SVG should meet the requirements of many users interested in a versatile converter for PDF documents to SVG format.