RE: [PHP-DB] retrieve text from pdf
I can second that. I've worked with it under linux before (over a year ago, though), using pdftotext with exec() or system(), and it worked very well in the tests. I used it to index pdfs that other people were uploading and offer a little teaser on the site. Sadly it never went live, and I changed companies and forgot to take the code. But, seriously, this is not hard to use, once you know how to use system calls in php. Cheers, Matthias -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP-DB] retrieve text from pdf
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, 07 Sep 2005 13:57:51 +0900 hi! Anyone know how to retrieve text from pdf? If someone knows how, please teach me the code or site? Regards, yui -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP-DB] retrieve text from pdf
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 Koert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/07/2005 08:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], php-db@lists.php.net cc: Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] retrieve text from pdf 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, 07 Sep 2005 13:57:51 +0900 hi! Anyone know how to retrieve text from pdf? If someone knows how, please teach me the code or site? Regards, yui -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP-DB] retrieve text from pdf
hi! Anyone know how to retrieve text from pdf? If someone knows how, please teach me the code or site? Regards, yui -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
