I just want to read the title of a pdf document - is that so difficult?

[ocpaul20]

I dont want a large library of routines which allow me to create pdfs. All I want to do is to read the title from an existing pdf but I cannot find how to do it.

 

It should not be that difficult really, but most of the pdf software concentrate on writing pdfs which I dont want or need. If I have to have pdf writing software, I dont really care - as long as I can simply read the title of a pdf document on my disk.

 

Please someone, there must be a very easy answer that I have missed somewhere along the line.

 

And if you know the code to use for this, then that would be good too, but not essential. :-)

Thanks.

Paul

[xyph]

http://www.mombu.com/php/php/t-reading-a-pdfs-title-3050475-last.html

http://de77.com/php/extract-title-author-and-number-of-pages-from-pdf-with-php

 

Holy crap! Who would've thunk that a search engine could find so much information

 

http://www.google.ca/search?q=get+pdf+title+php

[ocpaul20]

Strangely, I was making things too complicated and I thought I needed to parse the fpdf file itself. Also I must have been searching for the wrong terms obviously. Thank you. I am sure this will do the trick. :-)