Re: reading PDF's

From: Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 00:03:08 +0000
Subject: Re: reading PDF's
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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 most cases, as the text is stored as real text, not as images of text, in the PDF. Surely there must be a PDF-to-text utility out there somewhere, because there's plenty of open-source PDF reading utils around... Jasper

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