How to extract text from the PDF document? [closed]

Question

How to extract text from the PDF document using PHP?

(I can't use other tools, I don't have root access)

I've found some functions working for plain text, but they don't handle well Unicode characters:

http://www.hashbangcode.com/blog/zend-lucene-and-pdf-documents-part-2-pdf-data-extraction-437.html

Answer 1

Download the class.pdf2text.php @ https://pastebin.com/dvwySU1a or http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/file/31030.html (Registration required)

Code:

include('class.pdf2text.php'); $a = new PDF2Text(); $a->setFilename('filename.pdf');  $a->decodePDF(); echo $a->output();  

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• pdf2textclass doesn't work with all the PDF's I've tested, If it doesn't work for you, try PDF Parser

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