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Posted by Jason Barnett on 07/01/05 18:31
Richard Lynch wrote:
> On Fri, June 24, 2005 12:10 pm, Jon said:
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>>Is it possible to read text from a PDF file with PHP? How?
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> There may be a free one, or even an OpenSource one, but I've never heard
> of it, possibly because they'd have to pay a license to Adobe (Macromedia
> this week?) to be legal...
>
Free (as in beer):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
It's built on top of Ghostscript... which AFAIK does most of the heavy
lifting. Several licensing options too.
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> You don't want to get to launch and find out 90% of the real PDFs simply
> don't work. :-(
>
I've been using it for about 3 months with very few problems. In fact,
I can't think of any problems that I've had with the library (but I
don't use it with PHP... I just know that bindings are there for you to
go do it yourself).
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