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PHP PDFBox: Extract text from PDF documents using PDFBox tool

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This package can extract text from PDF documents using the PDFBox tool.

It can read a PDF document from a file or an opened stream and calls the PDFBox Java tool to extract text the PDF document.

The extracted text can be returned in plain text, HTML or DOM objects. The output can also be saved to a given file.

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PdfBox

A PHP interface for the PdfBox ExtractText utility, useful to unit-test contents of generated PDFs.

Requirements

  • Java Runtime Environment
  • PdfBox JAR file - Download: http://pdfbox.apache.org/downloads.html - Tested with 1.6.0, 1.7.0 and 1.8.6
  • PHP needs permissions for shell execution

Install

To install with composer:

composer require sgh/pdfbox

Basic Usage

use SGH\PdfBox

//$pdf = GENERATED_PDF;
$converter = new PdfBox;
$converter->setPathToPdfBox('/usr/bin/pdfbox-app-1.7.0.jar');
$text = $converter->textFromPdfStream($pdf);
$html = $converter->htmlFromPdfStream($pdf);
$dom  = $converter->domFromPdfStream($pdf);

If the source PDF is a file, use xxxFromPdfFile() instead xxxFromPdfStream() with the source path as parameter.

If you want to save the converted output to a file, specify the destination path as second parameter of the xxxFromPdfxxx() methods.

Advanced Usage

Convert a range of pages instead of the full document:

$converter->getOptions()
    ->setStartPage(2)
	->setEndPage(5);

Ignore corrupt objects in the PDF:

$converter->getOptions()
    ->setForce(true);

Sort text:

$converter->getOptions()
    ->setSort(true);

PHPUnit tests

To run the unit tests, change the environment variable PDFBOX_JAR to the full path of your PdfBox JAR file. See phpunit.xml.dist.


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