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Pdf Parser, a standalone PHP library, provides various tools to extract data from a PDF file.

Test the API on our demo page.

This project is supported by Actualys.

Features

Features included :

Load/parse objects and headers
Extract meta data (author, description, ...)
Extract text from ordered pages
Support of compressed pdf
Support of MAC OS Roman charset encoding
Handling of hexa and octal encoding in text sections
PSR-0 compliant (autoloader)
PSR-1 compliant (code styling)

Currently, secured documents are not supported.

This Library is under active maintenance. There is no active development by the author of this library (at the moment), but we welcome any pull request adding/extending functionality!

Documentation

Read the documentation on the wiki.

Original PDF References files can be downloaded from this url: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference_archive.html

For developers

Please read DEVELOPER.md for more information about local development of the PDFParser library. Here you will also find information about how to handle Base63 encoded PDFs.

Installation

Using Composer

Obtain Composer
Run composer require smalot/pdfparser

Use alternate file loader

In case you can't use Composer, you can include alt_autoload.php-dist into your project. It will load all required files at once. Afterwards you can use PDFParser class and others.

License

This library is under the LGPLv3 license.

smalot / pdfparser

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