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asika/pdf2text
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Simple PHP PDF to text class.

1.0.6(2y ago)25833.7k↓31.3%17MITPHP

Since Apr 13Pushed 2y ago2 watchersCompare

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Simple PDF to text class
========================

[](#simple-pdf-to-text-class)

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This is a simple PDF to text class based on [SilverStripe framework](https://code.google.com/p/lucene-silverstripe-plugin/source/browse/trunk/thirdparty/class.pdf2text.php?r=19)

This version support composer and PSR-4 autoloading. Origin code is maintained by [Darren Inwood](https://code.google.com/u/102046044091186134429).

Installation Via Composer
=========================

[](#installation-via-composer)

```
{
    "require": {
        "asika/pdf2text": "~1.0"
    }
}
```

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

```
$reader = new \Asika\Pdf2text;
$output = $reader->decode($fileName);
```

Lincense
========

[](#lincense)

MIT

###  Health Score

42

—

FairBetter than 88% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity48

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community17

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity68

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 73.1% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~584 days

Recently: every ~694 days

Total

7

Last Release

933d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1639206?v=4)[Simon Asika](/maintainers/asika32764)[@asika32764](https://github.com/asika32764)

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Top Contributors

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Tags

pdfpdf-to-text

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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