As AI integration in software products and services becomes more popular, the need for more dynamic and accessible documents has never been greater.
For companies working with a large amount of documents, converting PDFs to HTML may be crucial step, offering enhanced usability and the ability to harness AI’s full potential. In this blog post, we’ll discuss the top reasons why this conversion is a game-changer for AI.
Boost Accessibility and Searchability
When you convert your PDFs to HTML their searchability greatly increases, allowing search engines and LLMs to easily crawl your data and bring it to a larger audience.
With HTML’s plain text structure, models like ChatGPT find it easier to understand the context of the content.
PDFs are often static and can not be dynamically rendered and updated unlike HTML. This is specially true if you have a large collection of PDFs that need to integrate into a web application.
Furthermore, AI models might struggle parsing PDF files. This becomes a bigger problem if the document has embedded images and complex layouts.
Optimizing Memory Usage
The text-based nature of HTML along with its straightforward markup means that the developers have more control. Embedded resources from PDF results in unused storage whereas HTML allows CSS and JavaScript resources to be cached by the browser.
Since browsers are able to cache data from HTML, this leads to faster response times, which is beneficial during real-time processing (e.g natural language responses).
Scalability and Adaptability
Reading HTML is much less processing intensive compared to parsing PDFs, making it the perfect choice for AI-driven web applications that wish to scale.
Likewise, HTML can adapt to different devices and screen sizes. Adhering to responsiveness would mean maximising the number of users your AI application can reach.
BuildVu converts existing PDFs to HTML
Our powerful tool BuildVu specialises in converting your PDF documents into pure HTML. You don’t have to rely on the cloud or an off-shore service, as it allows you to store the data locally.
BuildVu allows you to
View PDF files in a Web app |
Convert PDF documents to HTML5 |
Parse PDF documents as HTML |