Read Pdf Files With PHP

Read pdf files with php

Check out FPDF (with FPDI):

http://www.fpdf.org/

http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi/

These will let you open an pdf and add content to it in PHP. I'm guessing you can also use their functionality to search through the existing content for the values you need.

Another possible library is TCPDF: https://tcpdf.org/

Update to add a more modern library: PDF Parser

How to Read PDF File using PHP

There are a variety of techniques to read PDF using PHP. I won't be using the code in here because it is not appropriate on the premise that we don't know what is your exact use case. But here are a few links that could help you out. In no particular order,

• FPDF: http://www.fpdf.org/
• FPDF is a PDF reader for PHP. The one below, is more like a converter.


• PDF TO HTML http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/
• Free PDF Document Importer: http://www.setasign.com/products/fpdi/about/

Get content of PDF file in PHP

You can use PDF Parser (PHP PDF Library) to extract each
and everything from PDF's.

PDF Parser Library Link: https://github.com/smalot/pdfparser

Online Demo Link: https://github.com/smalot/pdfparser/blob/master/doc/Usage.md

Documentation Link: https://github.com/smalot/pdfparser/tree/master/doc

Sample Code:

<?php
 
// Include Composer autoloader if not already done.
include 'vendor/autoload.php';
 
// Parse pdf file and build necessary objects.
$parser = new \Smalot\PdfParser\Parser();
$pdf    = $parser->parseFile('document.pdf');
 
$text = $pdf->getText();
echo $text;
 
?>

Regarding another part of your Question:

How To Convert Your PDF Pages Into Images:

You need ImageMagick and GhostScript

<?php
$im = new imagick('file.pdf[0]');
$im->setImageFormat('jpg');
header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');
echo $im;
?>

The [0] means page 1.

Read the content of a PDF with PHP?

I see two solutions here:

• converting your PDF file into something else before: text, html.
• using a library to do so and bad news here, most of them are written in Java.

https://whatisprymas.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/lucene-how-to-index-pdf-files/

Reading PDF file with php

How can you read a pdf file? If by read you mean to read characters in the pdf file then you need an OCR library to do the same. You can find different libraries like:

http://www.fpdf.org/

Reading PDF files in PHP

Yes, you can. Either install a command line script that can convert PDFs to text and execute this in PHP

$content = shell_exec('/usr/local/bin/pdftotext '.$filename.' -'); //dash at the end to output content

(source)

... or write a PHP function like this.

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