ottosmops/pdftotext

Extract text from PDF

Extract text from a PDF with pdftotext

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This package provides a class to extract text from a pdf., _(*2)

For PHP 5.6 use Version 1.0.3, _(*3)

  \Ottosmops\Pdftotext\Extract::getText('/path/to/file.pdf') //returns the text from the pdf

Requirements

The Package uses pdftotext. Make sure that this is installed: which pdftotext, _(*4)

For Installation see: poppler-utils, _(*5)

If the installed binary is not found ("The command "which pdftotext" failed.") you can pass the full path to the _constructor (see below) or use putenv('PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/:/usr/bin') (with the dir where pdftotext lives) before you call the class Extract., _(*6)

Installation

composer require ottosmops/pdftotext

Usage

Extracting text from a pdf:, _(*7)

$text = (new Extract())
    ->pdf('file.pdf')
    ->text();

You can set the binary and you can specify options:, _(*8)

$text = (new Extract('/path/to/pdftotext'))
    ->pdf('path/to/file.pdf')
    ->options('-layout')
    ->text();

Default options are: -eol unix -enc UTF-8 -raw, _(*9)

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information., _(*10)