PDF Parser

[Farhan]

i am trying to make a PDF parser in PHP which will be able to extract
data from PDF files. i want to basically convert pdf files to XML
data. any idea from where i could start?

[Shawn Wilson]

Farhan wrote:

i am trying to make a PDF parser in PHP which will be able to extract
data from PDF files. i want to basically convert pdf files to XML
data. any idea from where i could start?

http://ca2.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php
You may find the links in the comments helpful.
I've never done anything with PDFs/PHP, but some of the tutorials looked
promising.

Regards,
Shawn
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[Farhan]

thanks, shawn, for your reply. but PDFLib is not really what i am
looking for. i need to extract data from PDF files. someone at #php in
freenode told me that PDFLib with PID will be able to do that. but i
don't think PID comes along with PHP, we need to by it.

farhan

[Chung Leong]

See my PDF highlighting code:

http://www.conradish.net/pdfhi.php.txt

Pay attention to line 451 to 462.

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thanks, shawn, for your reply. but PDFLib is not really what i am
looking for. i need to extract data from PDF files. someone at #php in
freenode told me that PDFLib with PID will be able to do that. but i
don't think PID comes along with PHP, we need to by it.

farhan

[Farhan]

> See my PDF highlighting code:

http://www.conradish.net/pdfhi.php.txt

Pay attention to line 451 to 462.

thanks chung. i will try looking at the code some other time, because
the server you are ointing me to seems to be down right now. but just
a question - do you just search the binary data or do you follow the
Adobe PDF Specification? if you do, is it too complicated? thanks
again.

farhan