Ben Ramsey wrote:
Another, easy way to create PDFs with PHP is to use PDML:
http://pdml.sourceforge.net/
As for reading the text from a PDF, maybe there's some sort of OCR
library for PHP out there, but I don't know about it. It'd be a great
thing to see, though.
You wouldn't need OCR in mo
Is it possible to read text from a PDF file with PHP? How?
There may be a free one, or even an OpenSource one, but I've never heard
of it, possibly because they'd have to pay a license to Adobe (Macromedia
this week?) to be legal...
Free (as in beer):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator
Richard Lynch wrote:
On Fri, June 24, 2005 12:10 pm, Jon said:
Is it possible to read text from a PDF file with PHP? How?
...
There may be a free one, or even an OpenSource one, but I've never heard
of it, possibly because they'd have to pay a license to Adobe (Macromedia
this week?) to be l
On Fri, June 24, 2005 12:10 pm, Jon said:
> Is it possible to read text from a PDF file with PHP? How?
At the crudest level, you can fopen/fread a PDF and dump it out, and pick
out the plain-text readable bits with your eyes. :-)
After that, there are definitely some commercial command-line tools
Jon,
I'm not sure there is a way for you to do this from within PHP, but then
again I didn't think it was possible for PHP to generate a pdf without
any extra libs either ;-)
You might want to start with the pdf2* command line programs. I think
there is in fact one that will output the pdf as
Is it possible to read text from a PDF file with PHP? How?
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