Parsing the content from PDF file through PHP code

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HarPaddy
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Parsing the content from PDF file through PHP code

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Hi,

i am trying to make a PDF parser in PHP which will be able to extract data from PDF files. i want to basically convert pdf files to CSV format. Any idea from where i could start?Can anyone please help me regarding this?


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McInfo
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Re: Parsing the content from PDF file through PHP code

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The comments section of http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php might be helpful to you.

Also, David Walsh describes how to read PDFs with XPDF at http://davidwalsh.name/read-pdf-doc-file-php.

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