Simple PHP wrapper to the pdfinfo unix tool., (*1)
Inspired by http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14644353/get-the-number-of-pages-in-a-pdf-document/14644354, (*2)
What is pdfinfo
pdfinfo is an unix tool helping extract information from pdf files., (*3)
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/pdfinfo1.html, (*4)
You can get page count, title, author..etc via the tool., (*5)
Installation
1. Install pdfinfo
First you need to have pdfinfo in your system., (*6)
For ubuntu, there's an easy way for doing this:, (*7)
sudo apt-get install poppler-utils
2. Install the library
You can just download the file to your project, or install it via composer:, (*8)
composer require "howtomakeaturn/pdfinfo:1.*"
Usage
Just pass the path to the pdf file to the constructor, and you can get metadata from its properties immediately:, (*9)
$pdf = new PDFInfo('path/to/the/pdf');
echo $pdf->title; // Get the title
echo $pdf->pages; // Get the number of pages
Exceptions
This library throws 4 kind of exceptions to represent the official exit codes.
* OpenPDFException
* OpenOutputException
* PDFPermissionException
* OtherException, (*10)
Check the official documentation for more information., (*11)
Reference
Currently this library supports the following metadata:, (*12)
- title
- author
- creator
- producer
- creationDate
- modDate
- tagged
- form
- pages
- encrypted
- pageSize
- fileSize
- optimized
- PDFVersion
- pageRot
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