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Re: PDF extract text

From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: PDF extract text
Date 2014-04-07 13:44 +0200
Organization PointedEars Software (PES)
Message-ID <2516409.2CcVLJuQFQ@PointedEars.de> (permalink)
References <lhtavi$dh$1@online.de>

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Philipp Kraus wrote:

> how can I extract text, images and other structures can be ignored,
> with PHP from a PDF file?

For example with “PDF Parser”.  You cannot have searched before posting; it 
took me less than a minute to find that out with the Google keywords “pdf 
php read”.

<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>

> We have a lot of LaTeX PDFs and Powerpoint PDFs and would like to
> extract only the text content
> to create a text analysis of the content eg for LaTeX scripts we would
> like the chapter structure as well.

PDF files generated with pdflatex usually contain that as TOC metadata.
 
> Is there any solution to do this with build-in PHP functions?
                                            ^t
No.

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PDF extract text Philipp Kraus <philipp.kraus@flashpixx.de> - 2014-04-07 06:53 +0200
  Re: PDF extract text Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-04-07 13:44 +0200
    Re: PDF extract text Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-04-07 21:52 +0200
      Re: PDF extract text Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-04-07 22:12 +0200
  Re: PDF extract text Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-04-07 08:53 -0700
    Re: PDF extract text Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-04-07 19:38 +0200

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