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brandont18/pdfmergerphp
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PDFMerger for PHP

1.0(4y ago)06LGPL-3.0-or-laterPHPPHP >=5.2.0

Since Jan 11Pushed 4y ago1 watchersCompare

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\#PDFMerger for PHP (PHP >= 5/Laravel Compatible)

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### Example Usage

[](#example-usage)

```
$pdf = new PDFMerger();

$pdf->addPDF('samplepdfs/one.pdf', '1, 3, 4');
$pdf->addPDF('samplepdfs/two.pdf', '1-2');
$pdf->addPDF('samplepdfs/three.pdf', 'all');

$pdf->merge('file', 'samplepdfs/TEST2.pdf');

$pdf1 = public_path().'/images/prueba.pdf';
$stream = fopen($pdf1, "r");
$content = fread ($stream, filesize($pdf1));
if(!$stream || !$content) return 0;
$count = 0;
$regex = "/\/Count\s+(\d+)/";
if(preg_match_all($regex, $content, $matches)) $count = max($matches);
return $count[0];

$pdf = new PDFMerger();
$pdf->addPDF($pdf1, '1-5');
$pathForTheMergedPdf = public_path()."/result.pdf";
$pdf->merge('file', $pathForTheMergedPdf);

// REPLACE 'file' WITH 'browser', 'download', 'string', or 'file' for output options
```

###  Health Score

20

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LowBetter than 14% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity44

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

1586d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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