1. Go to this page and download the library: Download avvertix/liteparse-php library. Choose the download type require.
2. Extract the ZIP file and open the index.php.
3. Add this code to the index.php.
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');
/* Start to develop here. Best regards https://php-download.com/ */
avvertix / liteparse-php example snippets
use LiteParse\Config;
use LiteParse\OutputFormat;
use LiteParse\LiteParse;
$parser = new LiteParse(new Config(outputFormat: OutputFormat::Markdown));
$result = $parser->parseFile('/path/to/document.pdf');
echo $result->pageCount(); // int
echo $result->text(); // plain text, "--- Page N ---" headers
echo $result->markdown(); // headings/lists/tables/figure refs reconstructed from layout
echo json_encode($result->json()); // structured per-page text items: bbox + font size + fill/stroke color, per item
echo json_encode($result->lines()); // structured per-page projected lines: merged bbox + style + column geometry
use LiteParse\Config;
use LiteParse\LiteParse;
use LiteParse\Layout\BlockKind;
$parser = new LiteParse(new Config(extractBlocks: true));
$result = $parser->parseFile('/path/to/document.pdf');
// Grouped by page — the default, familiar shape:
foreach ($result->blocks() as $page) {
foreach ($page['blocks'] as $block) {
if ($block->kind === BlockKind::Heading) {
echo str_repeat('#', $block->level ?? 1)." {$block->text}\n";
}
}
}
// Or flattened across the whole document, each block still tagged with its own page:
foreach ($result->flatBlocks() as $block) {
printf("p%d %s: %s\n", $block->pageNumber, $block->kind->value, $block->text ?? '');
}
$parser = new LiteParse(new Config(
ocrServerUrl: 'http://localhost:8828/ocr', // implies ocrEnabled: true
));
$result = $parser->parseFile('scan.png'); // or a scanned/photographed PDF page
echo $result->text();
$parser = new LiteParse(new Config(dpi: 150.0)); // keep parse and screenshot DPI in sync
$result = $parser->parseFile('report.pdf');
$matches = $result->search('quarterly revenue');
$screenshots = $parser->screenshotFile('report.pdf', pageNumbers: array_column($matches, 'page_number'));