Nimwei Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 I've got a PDF document that is generated every week by a third-party that I need to go out, download, and parse out the text. It is a simple word document that has a generic table and then converted to a PDF so the parsing won't be bad.I've searched around and I can't seem to find any libraries or examples of how to do this.Anyone help me?Thanks. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/17240-pdfs-is-there-a-way-to-read-a-pdf-and-pull-text-from-it/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
effigy Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 [url=http://www.google.com/search?q=php%20pdf%20classes]Search results for PHP.[/url] There are lots of other tools out there to do this, such as pdf2txt. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/17240-pdfs-is-there-a-way-to-read-a-pdf-and-pull-text-from-it/#findComment-73077 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimwei Posted August 11, 2006 Author Share Posted August 11, 2006 I don't need a tool to do it. I need to write a script to do it because I don't want to have to manually go out and convert it every week. Thanks for the search link though. I've been through them but I'll look further. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/17240-pdfs-is-there-a-way-to-read-a-pdf-and-pull-text-from-it/#findComment-73084 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mainewoods Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 php has PDF functions which you sould be able to use if installed:http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/17240-pdfs-is-there-a-way-to-read-a-pdf-and-pull-text-from-it/#findComment-73173 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimwei Posted August 11, 2006 Author Share Posted August 11, 2006 Yes, I'm aware of the functions for PDFs. Unfortunately, they are not documented so I was hoping someone could help me out and point me int eh right way. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/17240-pdfs-is-there-a-way-to-read-a-pdf-and-pull-text-from-it/#findComment-73345 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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