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Re: PDF extract text [message #185511 is a reply to message #185508]

Mon, 07 April 2014 11:44

Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Philipp Kraus wrote:

> how can I extract text, images and other structures can be ignored,
> with PHP from a PDF file?

For example with “PDF Parser”. You cannot have searched before posting; it
took me less than a minute to find that out with the Google keywords “pdf
php read”.

<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>

> We have a lot of LaTeX PDFs and Powerpoint PDFs and would like to
> extract only the text content
> to create a text analysis of the content eg for LaTeX scripts we would
> like the chapter structure as well.

PDF files generated with pdflatex usually contain that as TOC metadata.

> Is there any solution to do this with build-in PHP functions?
^t
No.

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		PDF extract text By: Philipp Kraus on Mon, 07 April 2014 04:53
		Re: PDF extract text By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 07 April 2014 11:44
		Re: PDF extract text By: Christoph Michael Bec on Mon, 07 April 2014 19:52
		Re: PDF extract text By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 07 April 2014 20:12
		Re: PDF extract text By: Michael Vilain on Mon, 07 April 2014 15:53
		Re: PDF extract text By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 07 April 2014 17:38

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