Re: PDF to Text
| From: | Ray Hauge | Date: | Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:11:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PDF to Text | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Thursday 20 April 2006 18:06, Ray Hauge wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I am trying to find a way for a program to search through the text on a
> PDF. My first thought was to use pdftotext, but the PDFs generated by our
> commercial scanner/copier/printer machine do not seem to work with
> pdftotext... it just outputs two CRLFs. I've been looking around on the
> net for something similar that might work.
>
> Anyone know of something like that?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Ray Hauge
Things I forgot to post:
It is a PHP script. I was planning on using shell_exec() to call the program
and read the output from stdout.
--
Ray Hauge
Programmer/Systems Administrator
American Student Loan Services
www.americanstudentloan.com
1.800.575.1099