Re: [PHP] Extracting text from PDF files

On 10/9/07, Jay Blanchard <jblanchard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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I need to extract the text from a PDF file for
storage in the database.
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It depends. If the PDF is an image file you cannot do it with PHP.

http://www.php.net/pdf read the second user note


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Madison, WI 53703
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P.S. Do you know of the Madison Scouts?


We use pdf2text.exe to extract text from PDF's. I don't know of anyway to do
it just using PHP.

David

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