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akecul/pdfparser
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Forks from smalot/pdfparser library. Fixes text decoding error with some Chinese text.

v2.2.1.1(3y ago)064LGPL-3.0PHPPHP >=7.1

Since Sep 2Pushed 3y agoCompare

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Fixes text decoding error with some Chinese text;

PDF parser
==========

[](#pdf-parser)

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The `ake/pdfparser` forks from `smalot/pdfparser`. It is a standalone PHP package that provides various tools to extract data from PDF files.

This library is under **active maintenance**. There is no active development by the author of this library (at the moment), but we welcome any pull request adding/extending functionality!

Features
--------

[](#features)

- Load/parse objects and headers
- Extract metadata (author, description, ...)
- Extract text from ordered pages
- Support of compressed PDFs
- Support of MAC OS Roman charset encoding
- Handling of hexa and octal encoding in text sections
- Create custom configurations (see [CustomConfig.md](/doc/CustomConfig.md)).

Currently, secured documents and extracting form data are not supported.

License
-------

[](#license)

This library is under the [LGPLv3 license](https://github.com/smalot/pdfparser/blob/master/LICENSE.txt).

Install
-------

[](#install)

This library requires PHP 7.1+ since [v1](https://github.com/smalot/pdfparser/releases/tag/v1.0.0). You can install it via [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/):

```
composer require ake/pdfparser
```

In case you can't use Composer, you can include `alt_autoload.php-dist`. It will include all required files automatically.

Quick example
-------------

[](#quick-example)

```