Re: Extracting text from PDF files
| From: | David Giragosian | Date: | Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:44:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Extracting text from PDF files | ||
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On 10/9/07, Jay Blanchard <jblanchard@pocket.com> wrote:
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> [snip]
> I need to extract the text from a PDF file for
> storage in the database.
> [/snip]
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> It depends. If the PDF is an image file you cannot do it with PHP.
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> http://www.php.net/pdf read the second user note
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> [snip]
> Madison, WI 53703
> [/snip]
> 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