Add Html parser when uplading file

[AliceeLe]

Description

I aim to resolve this issue: #37

What I did is to utilize existing pdfkit library to convert HTML to pdf because there are a lot of customization options for HTML. Hence, converting to PDF and use the existing method would be a more efficient choice. I used pdfkit and wkhtmltopdf for this change.

The front-end change for this back-end update is here: harmonydata/app#36

Fixes # 37

Type of change

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• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)

Testing

Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Provide instructions so we can reproduce. Please also list any relevant details for your test configuration

• Test that it successfully converts to PDF and matches the output in Jupyter notebook

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Test Configuration

• Library version: 1.0.1
• OS: macOS Sonoma 14.0 (Darwin Kernel 24.0.0, ARM64)
• Toolchain: npm v10.8.2, Node.js v18.20.5

Checklist

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[woodthom2]

Hi Alice
thanks so much for doing this, I really appreciate the time you took to contribute to the project.

Before I merge this in, I'm just a little concerned about 2 things in the PR:

1. sending HTML via PDF and back - can we find a way to do this directly from HTML? PDF loses information and adds lots of line breaks, but actually the Harmony PDF processing involves a third party code (Tika) converting PDF to text and then we try to extract the data here. So there's no need to generate a PDF, since Harmony operates on plain text in text_parser.py anyway.
2. the relatively large number of third party dependencies that are now added to the project - do you think you might be able to implement this functionality with the third party libraries that are already in pyproject.toml, or perhaps at most one extra dependency such as lxml being added? Sorry I should have mentioned this before but when we have many extra dependencies added, the project becomes large and unstable. If each issue solved added 4 dependencies, the project would rapidly become hard to manage as the dependencies tend to conflict with each other, so we're trying to keep this list as slim as possible.

I'd be really grateful if you get the time to check those two points and see if you can adjust the PR to have a smaller footprint, then we can look at merging it... thanks!

[narendrakumar9867]

@AliceeLe Hi, Can I also help in solving this issue?
for two things add it like- sending HTML via PDF and back and another as @woodthom2 mention in above.