PDF to Text Symfony2 Bundle
This Symfony2 bundle allows you to convert an input PDF file into plain text., (*1)
Conversion is made through pdftotext command-line utilty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftotext). pdftotext is part of Xpdf software suite, is included in many Linux distributions and that should be available also for Mac OS X and Windows platforms., (*2)
Installation
Install this bundle as any other Symfony2 bundle., (*3)
Symfony >= 2.1.x
Add the following requirement to your composer.json:, (*4)
"require": {
…
"webgriffe/pdftotext-bundle": "dev-master"
}
Install the bundle with the following command:, (*5)
$ composer update webgriffe/pdftotext-bundle
Register the bundle in the AppKernel:, (*6)
public function registerBundles()
{
…
new Webgriffe\PdfToTextBundle\WebgriffePdfToTextBundle(),
}
Symfony 2.0.x
Add the following requirement in your deps file:, (*7)
…
[WebgriffePdfToTextBundle]
git=git://github.com/webgriffe/pdftotext-bundle.git
target=bundles/Webgriffe/PdfToTextBundle
Install the bundle with the following command:, (*8)
$ bin/vendors install
Register the bundle in the AppKernel:, (*9)
public function registerBundles()
{
…
new Webgriffe\PdfToTextBundle\WebgriffePdfToTextBundle(),
}
Usage
Simply, you can get the PdfToTextConverter from DIC and get the plain text string., (*10)
// Acme\MyBundle\Controller\MyController
public function myAction()
{
$pdfFile = '/path/to/file.pdf';
$pdfToTextConverter = $this->get('webgriffe_pdf_to_text.converter');
$pdfText = $pdfToTextConverter->convert($pdfFile);
return new \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response($pdfText);
}
You can also specify the output encoding (default is UTF-8)., (*11)
$pdfText = $pdfToTextConverter->convert($pdfFile, 'ISO-8859-1');
Specify pdftotext binary path
You can specify the pdftotext binary path in your config.yml:, (*12)
webgriffe_pdf_to_text:
bin_path: /usr/local/bin/pdftotext
Credits
This bundle has been developed by Webgriffe®. Please, report to us any bug or suggestion by GitHub issues., (*13)
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