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My PDF to Text: Parse a PDF document to extract the text contents

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The Algoslingers

This class can parse a PDF document to extract the text contents.

It can take the file name of a PDF document as a parameter and parses the document file.

The class can extract the document's text and return it as a string.

This class convert PDF file to raw text which can be saved as .txt/.doc/.whatever or can be copied and pasted to anywhere.

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Instructions

Download and add the PDFMyText class to your project.

Call the PDFMyText() class or see the index.php file for example usage.

Example

<?php
require('class.pdfmytext.php');

extract($_POST);
 

if(isset($readpdf)){

    

    if($_FILES['file']['type']=="application/pdf") {

        $a = new PDFMyText();

        $a->setFilename($_FILES['file']['tmp_name']);

        $a->decodePDF();

        echo $a->output()."<br>";

    }

     
    else {

        echo "<p style='color:red; text-align:center'>

            Wrong file format</p>
";

    }
}
?>
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"/>
    <title>PDF to TEXT < By @TheAlgoslingers</title>
  </head>
  <body style="text-align:center;padding:15px">
    <form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
      <input type="file" name="file" />
      <br><br>
      <input type="submit" name="readpdf" value="Convert"/>
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

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