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how do I read the contents of a pdf file in symfony?

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 10:05 am
by sobha
how do I read the contents of pdf files in a folder in symfony?

Re: how do I read the contents of a pdf file in symfony?

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 10:46 am
by Celauran
The short answer is you don't. They're binary files and extracting the text into something meaningful and usable is... not easy. Poppler utils can help, but it's likely going to be painful.