php-xpdf/php-xpdf

XPDF PHP, an Object Oriented library to manipulate XPDF

PHP-XPDF

, _(*1)

PHP-XPDF is an object oriented wrapper for XPDF. For the moment, only PdfTotext wrapper is available., _(*2)

Installation

It is recommended to install PHP-XPDF through Composer :, _(*3)

{
    "require": {
        "php-xpdf/php-xpdf": "~0.2.0"
    }
}

Dependencies :

In order to use PHP-XPDF, you need to install XPDF. Depending of your configuration, please follow the instructions at on the XPDF website., _(*4)

Documentation

Driver Initialization

The easiest way to instantiate the driver is to call the `create method., _(*5)

$pdfToText = XPDF\PdfToText::create();

You can optionaly pass a configuration and a logger (any Psr\Logger\LoggerInterface)., _(*6)

$pdfToText = XPDF\PdfToText::create(array(
    'pdftotext.binaries' => '/opt/local/xpdf/bin/pdftotext',
    'pdftotext.timeout' => 30, // timeout for the underlying process
), $logger);

Extract text

To extract text from PDF, use the getText method., _(*7)

$text = $pdtTotext->getText('document.pdf');

You can optionally extract from a page to another page., _(*8)

$text = $pdtTotext->getText('document.pdf', $from = 1, $to = 4);

You can also predefined how much pages would be extracted on any call., _(*9)

$pdtTotext->setpageQuantity(2);
$pdtTotext->getText('document.pdf'); // extracts page 1 and 2

Use with Silex

A Silex service provider is available, _(*10)

$app = new Silex\Application();
$app->register(new XPDF\XPDFServiceProvider());

$app['xpdf.pdftotext']->getText('document.pdf');

Options can be passed to customize the provider., _(*11)

$app->register(new XPDF\XPDFServiceProvider(), array(
    'xpdf.configuration' => array(
        'pdftotext.timeout'  => 30,
        'pdftotext.binaries' => '/opt/local/xpdf/bin/pdftotext',
    ),
    'xpdf.logger' => $logger,
));

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license., _(*12)