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What is the best PHP pdf to text converter class?: Convert a PDF document into text

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What is the best PHP pdf to text converter class?

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Picture of vinicius de souza barreira by vinicius de souza barreira - 4 years ago (2020-09-01)

Convert a PDF document into text

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I need to read a PDF document, like for instance a report in PDF format, and export the document data to a text string.

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PHP PDF to Text: Extract text contents from PDF files

This package can extract the text contents from a PDF file using pure PHP code (no external tools are needed).

It provides the following features:

- Text is extracted from PDF files as a single text property. Individual page contents are also available separately
- Text strings can be searched over the whole file contents, or through individual pages
- Support for multiple character sets: parsed text is returned in UTF8
- Embedded images can be extracted if desired
- Several option flags are available to adjust PDF contents processing
- RTL language processing
- Basic page layout rendering
- PDF Form data extraction
- Ability to extract areas of text as well as line and column contents, using an XML-based capture definitions
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Picture of Manuel Lemos by Manuel Lemos Reputation 26695 - 4 years ago (2020-09-01) Comment

This is a very popular class that can convert your document into text strings with many other possibilities.

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