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Package pdf-to-text
Short Description Extract text from a pdf
License MIT
Homepage https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text
Informations about the package pdf-to-text
Extract text from a pdf
This package provides a class to extract text from a pdf.
Spatie is a webdesign agency based in Antwerp, Belgium. You'll find an overview of all our open source projects on our website.
Postcardware
You're free to use this package (it's MIT-licensed), but if it makes it to your production environment you are required to send us a postcard from your hometown, mentioning which of our package(s) you are using.
Our address is: Spatie, Samberstraat 69D, 2060 Antwerp, Belgium.
The best postcards will get published on the open source page on our website.
Requirements
Behind the scenes this package leverages pdftotext. You can verify if the binary installed on your system by issueing this command:
If it is installed it will return the path to the binary.
To install the binary you can use this command on Ubuntu or Debian:
If you're on RedHat or CentOS use this:
Installation
You can install the package via composer:
Usage
Extracting text from a pdf is easy.
Or easier:
By default the package will assume that the pdftotext
command is located at /usr/bin/pdftotext
.
If it is located elsewhere pass its binary path to constructor
or as the second parameter to the getText
static method:
Sometimes you may want to use pdftotext options. To do so you can set them up using the setOptions
method.
or as the third parameter to the getText
static method:
Please note that successive calls to setOptions()
will overwrite options passed in during previous calls.
If you need to make multiple calls to add options (for example if you need to pass in default options when creating
the Pdf
object from a container, and then add context-specific options elsewhere), you can use the addOptions()
method:
Change log
Please see CHANGELOG for more information about what has changed recently.
Testing
Contributing
Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.
Security
If you discover any security related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.
Credits
- Freek Van der Herten
- All Contributors
About Spatie
Spatie is a webdesign agency based in Antwerp, Belgium. You'll find an overview of all our open source projects on our website.
License
The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.