Re: Read a PDF file via PHP
| From: | Stut | Date: | Fri, 25 Jun 2004 20:01:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Read a PDF file via PHP | ||
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On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 19:36:11 +0000, veditio@comcast.net
<veditio@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Is there any way to get PHP to simply read the PDF file for text only--just the surface of it,
> just the words, as if it were a human reading the PDF itself--and not for the internal code of the
> file?
I do this on one of my sites using a utility called pstotext. Find it
at http://research.compaq.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html
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Stut