note 77097 added to ref.pdf

I seriously tried to get PDF parsing to work to use it in the indexing for fulltext search for a document management. But none of the pdf2text functions below worked for my test cases (among them an openoffice generated pdf file and a file generated by fpdf). But I found a REALLY WORKING SOLUTION! On linux systems, install the XPDF package. It comes with a tool called pdftotext. Use php code similar to the following to get the text content of your pdf files: <? $file = "test.pdf"; $outpath = preg_replace("/\.pdf$/", "", $file).".txt"; system("pdftotext ".escapeshellcmd($file), $ret); if ($ret == 0) { $value = file_get_contents($outpath); unlink($outpath); print $value; } if ($ret == 127) print "Could not find pdftotext tool."; if ($ret == 1) print "Could not find pdf file."; ?> The solution works on all test cases and is much more powerful than any of the previous pure php functions posted here, although only available on linux. ---- Server IP: 212.124.37.9 Probable Submitter: 84.58.157.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/77097 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77097/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77097/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77097/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77097/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77097/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77097/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77097 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/77097 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php