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Parsing the content from PDF file through PHP code

Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:22 am
by HarPaddy
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?


Thanks,
HarPaddy

Re: Parsing the content from PDF file through PHP code

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:27 pm
by McInfo
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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