Reading PDF files in PHP [duplicate]

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Read pdf files with php

Can you read PDF files by using PHP code?

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To read PDF files, you will need to install the XPDF ( http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/about.html ) package, which includes "pdftotext." Once you have XPDF/pdftotext installed, you run the following PHP statement to get the PDF text:

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

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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

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... or write a PHP function like this.

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You would have to use a extension like

http://www.pdflib.com/products/pdflib-family/

or

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.pdf.html