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I used file_get_conten ts() to read a pdf into a string and then tried
to extract the encoded part between the "stream" and "endstream" words
using the strpos() and substr() functions. (I could not get
preg_match() to work.) The substr() pulled it out, but read past the
length I entered by 12 characters to include "endstream en". Besides
that minor problem, I tried gzuncompress() on the extracted string
which only generated a data error. Can anyone help me with extracting
data properly from a pdf file?

Oct 31 '06 #1
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