Extract text from PDF in PHP
How to Extract text from PDF using PHP via Java
How to extract text from PDF using Aspose.PDF for PHP via Java
In order to extract text PDF file, we’ll use Aspose.PDF for .NET API which is a feature-rich, powerful, and easy-to-use document manipulation API for php-java platform. Open NuGet package manager, search for Aspose.PDF and install. You may also use the following command from the Package Manager Console.
Extract text from PDF in PHP
You need Aspose.PDF library to try the code in your environment.
- Load the PDF with an instance of Document.
- Create TextAbsorber object to extract text.
- Accept the absorber for all the pages.
- Get the extracted text
- Create a writer and open the file, write a line of text to the file
Extract text from PDF with PHP
This sample code shows how to extract text from PDF documents
Input file:
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Output format:
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Output file:
// Create a new Document object from the input PDF file.
$document = new Document($inputFile);
// Create a new TextAbsorber object to extract text from the document.
$textAbsorber = new TextAbsorber();
// Extract text from the document.
$textAbsorber->visit($document);
// Get the extracted text content.
$content = $textAbsorber->getText();
// Save the extracted text to the output file.
file_put_contents($outputFile, $content);
$document->close();