Guess this is a little late, but there are also some pretty decent command
line programs you can pipe PDFs through. I think Ghostscripts ps2ascii is
the most reliable, although not the most powerful.
Dec 11, Shawn Wilson said:
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> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:14:13 -0400
> From: Shawn Wilson <shawn@glassgiant.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.php
> Subject: Re: PDF -> TXT
>
> websafe wrote:[color=green]
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > is there a possibility to get the text
> > stored in a pdf file? I have some pdf files
> > and i would like to convert them to txt files.
> > In Adobre Acrobat Reader i can select the text,
> > but is thera a way to do this using PHP ?[/color]
>
> I've never done anything with PDFs and PHP, but if you read the comments on this
> page:
>
>
http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php
>
> you'll see one by a guy who tells you how to search for and highlight text in a
> PDF with PHP. I assume if you can search text, you can read it. But, like I
> said, I've never tried it.
>
> Regards,
> Shawn
> --
> Shawn Wilson
>
shawn@glassgiant.com
>
http://www.glassgiant.com
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PDF -> TXT 
