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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Subject: Re: PDF extract text
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 13:44:10 +0200
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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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