Php extract text form Pdf.

Question

I want to extract emails or a particular text from the pdf files in php.Please suggest me some well class or lib.

Thanks!

Answer 1

if you are referring to parsing a pdf with php, yes and no. I've never heard of php being able to do this natively, but there are libraries / plugins available for this.
in my experience I have mostly just built pdf's from html so I may be wrong.

Answer 2

You can follow these steps :

Step 1. create a file with the name class.pdf2text.php

Now paste the code below in this file:

Paste code from here

Step 2. In a another file just write the below code:

include('class.pdf2text.php');
$a = new PDF2Text();
$a->setFilename('test_RFP.pdf'); //give the file name with path
$a->decodePDF();
echo $a->output(); 

 

I hope this will help you , because when I was testing this  code it was not working for some of pdfs.

Comments

thanks for your answer , But I have already tried this , its not working

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if you want to extract data FROM a PDF file then you need some sort of PDF Parser, I would recommend https://github.com/smalot/pdfparser