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A PDF manipulator based on pdftk.

Features

PHPExtractor is a PDF manipulation tool for PHP.

Concatenate pages from several PDF files into a new PDF file
Split a PDF into multiple one page PDF files
Convert PDF to text
Search PDF
Rebuild PDF by keyword(s)
Extract PDF by keyword(s)
Create new directory
Delete all files from directory

Requirements

The pdftk command must be installed on your system

Installation

You should use use composer to install this library.

composer require ztomesic/pdfextractor

Examples

use ZTomesic\PDFExtractor\PDFExtractor;

PDF File class

use ZTomesic\PDFExtractor\PDF;

$pdf = new PDF('/file/location/file.pdf');

Burst

Split a PDF file into one file per page.

$file = new PDF('/file/location/file.pdf');

PDFExtractor::burst($file)->save('/location/where/to/burst/');

Cat

Concatenate pages from several PDF files into a new PDF file.

PDFExtractor::cat(/location/of/pdf/files/, '*.pdf')->save('location/where/to/save/', 'name_of_new_file.pdf');

PDF To Text

Convert PDF to text.

$pdf = new PDF('/file/location/file.pdf');

PDFExtractor::PDFToText($pdf);

Search PDF

Search PDF file by keywoard(s).

$pdf = new PDF('/file/location/file.pdf');

PDFExtractor::searchPDF($pdf, 'wordToSearchBy');

Rebuild PDF By Keyword

Rebuild PDF(s) by keyword(s)

$pdf = new PDF('/file/location/file.pdf');

PDFExtractor::rebuildPDFByKeyword($pdf, '/location/where/to/burst/', '/location/where/to/rebuild/', 'keyword_to_rebuild_by');

Relocate File

Change location of specific file

$pdf = new PDF('/file/location/file.pdf');

PDFExtractor::relocateFile($pdf, '/new/file/path/');

Clear Folder

Delete all content from folder.

$excludedFiles = ['excluded_file.pdf'];

PDFExtractor::clearFolder('/path/to/directory/', $excludedFiles);

Remove Directory

Delete directory and content.

PDFExtractor::removeDirectory('/path/to/directory/');

Create Directory

Create new directory.

PDFExtractor::createDirectory('/path/to/directory/name/');

Search and rebuild

Search PDF(s) and rebuild by keyword.

$pdf = new PDF('/file/location/file.pdf');
$PDFExtractor = PDFExtractor::burst($file)->save('/location/where/to/burst/');

$PDFExtractor->searchMultiplePDFByKeywords('/location/where/to/burst/', 'wordToSearchBy')
             ->changeFileLocation('/location/where/to/rebuild/')
             ->mergePDFByKeywords();

Extract Metadata To Array

Extract metadata to array.

PDFExtractor::extractMetadata('/path/to/directory/name/')
    ->save('/location/where/to/save/', 'name_of_file.txt')
    ->toArray();

Extract Metadata To String

Extract metadata to string.

PDFExtractor::extractMetadata('/path/to/directory/name/')
    ->save('/location/where/to/save/', 'name_of_file.txt')
    ->toString();

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