Pdf Parser, a standalone PHP library, provides various tools to extract data from a PDF file. This package originates from smalot\pdfparser. The only functionality added here is the ability to extract coordinates of text.
Website : http://www.pdfparser.org
Test the API on our demo page.
This project is supported by Actualys.
Features included :
- Load/parse objects and headers
- Extract meta data (author, description, ...)
- Extract text from ordered pages
- Support of compressed pdf
- Support of MAC OS Roman charset encoding
- Handling of hexa and octal encoding in text sections
- PSR-0 compliant (autoloader)
- PSR-1 compliant (code styling)
- Extraction of coordinates of specific text on a page
Currently, secured documents are not supported.
This Library is still under active development. As a result, users must expect BC breaks when using the master version.
Read the documentation on website.
Original PDF References files can be downloaded from this url : http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference_archive.html
This library is under the LGPLv3 license.