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Note Submitter: Abdoulaye Siby ---- Hello there I would like to say that the suggestion from Sam from dogmaConsult.de works well. The only limitation, wich I find trivial, is that some servers may be configured in a way that may prevent the creation of new files in the web folders unless the process creating the file is Apache or any of its related modules (PHP, ...). Your best bet will be to use the /tmp/ folder or any temporary folder to which the linux command that you are running through PHP (in this case pdftotext) has access. Here is my code. Note that I have used the -layout option. That instructs pdftotext to keep the original physical layout of the text content of the PDF. The result is amazing. I invite you to try it. Such wonderful application should be ported to PHP as an extension. Even table layout are preserved. I have tried converting a calendar form PDF to text and it was readable and not messy at all. <?php $file = "Sample.pdf"; $outpath = preg_replace("/\.pdf$/", "", $file).".txt"; $escaped = escapeshellcmd($file); exec("pdftotext -layout $escaped /tmp/$outpath"); $output = file_get_contents("/tmp/$outpath"); echo "<pre>$output</pre>"; ?> Cheers Abdoulaye Siby asiby _at_ hotmail _dot_com