Do you know of any free libraries to read PDFs in PHP, the built in PDF functionality is only for rendering PDF output.
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If your webserver is Unix, use the pdftotext utlity to dump the PDF to text, then display it how you want it. It's not going to have the formatting, but the text will be available.
codebunny
2009-01-30 22:03:28
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Once again, Zend Framework strikes : Zend_Pdf is a PDF (Portable Document Format) manipulation engine. It can load, create, modify and save documents. Thus it can help any PHP driven application to dynamically create PDF documents by modifying existing templates or generating new ones from scratch. [...]
Wookai
2009-01-30 22:07:16
Please note, as with most stuff in Zend Framework, Zend_Pdf is fairly easy to use stand alone without the requirement of the complete Zend Framework.
stefpet
2009-01-30 22:12:51
le sigh, i checked it out and it looked promising, then i tried to work with one of the sample PDFs for the project I need it for and the Zend Framework choked :(
2009-01-30 22:26:25
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Once again, Zend Framework strikes : Zend_Pdf is a PDF (Portable Document Format) manipulation engine
Don't forget that Zend Pdf is appliacable to use in NON-Zend environment. Most of Zend componemts are easy pluggable to any PHP application.
waney
2009-01-30 22:57:12
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You can use phpLiveDocx to convert PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF etc to TXT. For details see http://www.phplivedocx.org