PDF parser

The smalot/pdfparser is a standalone PHP package that provides various tools to extract data from PDF files.

This library is under active maintenance. There is no active development by the author of this library (at the moment), but we welcome any pull request adding/extending functionality!

Features

Load/parse objects and headers
Extract metadata (author, description, ...)
Extract text from ordered pages
Support of compressed PDFs
Support of MAC OS Roman charset encoding
Handling of hexa and octal encoding in text sections
Create custom configurations (see CustomConfig.md).

Currently, secured documents and extracting form data are not supported.

License

This library is under the LGPLv3 license.

Install

This library requires PHP 7.1+ since v1. You can install it via Composer:

composer require smalot/pdfparser

In case you can't use Composer, you can include alt_autoload.php-dist. It will include all required files automatically.

Quick example

<?php

// Parse PDF file and build necessary objects.
$parser = new \Smalot\PdfParser\Parser();
$pdf = $parser->parseFile('/path/to/document.pdf');

$text = $pdf->getText();
echo $text;

Further usage information can be found here.

Documentation