jbpapp/pdf-to-text

Extract text from a pdf file using pdf-to-text binary.

Extract text from a pdf

Read PDF files with PHP 5.6 (based on spatie/pdf-to-text package), _(*1)

This package is a PHP 5.6+ fork of Spatie PDF To Text package. If you use PHP7, please use the original package., _(*2)

This package provides a class to extract text from a pdf., _(*3)

 \JBPapp\PdfToText\Pdf::getText('book.pdf'); //returns the text from the pdf

Requirements

Behind the scenes this package leverages pdftotext. You can verify if the binary installed on your system by issueing this command:, _(*4)

which pdftotext

If it is installed it will return the path to the binary., _(*5)

To install the binary you can use this command on Ubuntu or Debian:, _(*6)

apt-get install poppler-utils

If you're on RedHat or CentOS use this:, _(*7)

yum install poppler-utils

Installation

You can install the package via composer:, _(*8)

$ composer require spatie/pdf-to-text

Usage

Extracting text from a pdf is easy., _(*9)

$text = (new Pdf())
    ->setPdf('book.pdf')
    ->text();

Or easier:, _(*10)

 \JBPapp\PdfToText\Pdf::getText('book.pdf')

By default the package will assume that the pdftotext is located at /usr/bin/pdftotext. If you're using the a different location pass the path to the binary in constructor, _(*11)

$text = (new Pdf('/custom/path/to/pdftotext'))
    ->setPdf('book.pdf')
    ->text();

or as the second parameter to the getText-function:, _(*12)

 \JBPapp\PdfToText\Pdf::getText('book.pdf', '/custom/path/to/pdftotext')

Change log

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently., _(*13)

Testing

bash $ composer test, _(*14)

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details., _(*15)

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email freek@spatie.be instead of using the issue tracker., _(*16)

Credits

• Janos Papp
• Freek Van der Herten
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information., _(*17)