RE: [PHP-DB] retrieve text from pdf

I can second that. I've worked with it under linux before (over a year ago, though), using pdftotext with exec() or system(), and it worked very well in the tests. I used it to index pdfs that other people were uploading and offer a little teaser on the site. Sadly it never went live, and I changed companies and forgot to take the code. But, seriously, this is not hard to use, once you know how to use system calls in php. Cheers, Matthias