RE: [PHP-DB] retrieve text from pdf

2005-09-07 Thread Bastien Koert
Are you looking for the text of the document or the data from forms embedded in the PDF? For the latter you can use the FDFToolkit from adobe. Bastien From: Yui Hiroaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] retrieve text from pdf Date: Wed,

RE: [PHP-DB] retrieve text from pdf

2005-09-07 Thread dpgirago
Hello Yui, We use an executable called pdftotext.exe to extract text from pdf's. You can find it here: - http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html Although we use it from the command line, I'd guess that it can be used satisfactorily with exec() within a PHP script, also. David Bastien