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[PDF & Document Generation](/categories/documents) 4. / 5. jbpapp/pdf-to-text ActiveLibrary[PDF & Document Generation](/categories/documents) jbpapp/pdf-to-text ================== Extract text from a pdf file using pdf-to-text binary. 2.0(7y ago)09381[1 issues](https://github.com/jbpapp/pdf-to-text/issues)[1 PRs](https://github.com/jbpapp/pdf-to-text/pulls)MITPHPPHP ^7.2 Since Mar 1Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/jbpapp/pdf-to-text)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/jbpapp/pdf-to-text)[ Docs](https://github.com/jbpapp/pdf-to-text)[ RSS](/packages/jbpapp-pdf-to-text/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced today READMEChangelog (3)Dependencies (2)Versions (4)Used By (0) Extract text from a pdf ======================= [](#extract-text-from-a-pdf) Read PDF files with PHP 5.6 (based on spatie/pdf-to-text package) **This package is a PHP 5.6+ fork of [Spatie PDF To Text](https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text) package. If you use PHP7, please use the original package.** This package provides a class to extract text from a pdf. ``` \JBPapp\PdfToText\Pdf::getText('book.pdf'); //returns the text from the pdf ``` Requirements ------------ [](#requirements) Behind the scenes this package leverages [pdftotext](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftotext). You can verify if the binary installed on your system by issueing this command: ``` which pdftotext ``` If it is installed it will return the path to the binary. To install the binary you can use this command on Ubuntu or Debian: ``` apt-get install poppler-utils ``` If you're on RedHat or CentOS use this: ``` yum install poppler-utils ``` Installation ------------ [](#installation) You can install the package via composer: ``` $ composer require spatie/pdf-to-text ``` Usage ----- [](#usage) Extracting text from a pdf is easy. ``` $text = (new Pdf()) ->setPdf('book.pdf') ->text(); ``` Or easier: ``` \JBPapp\PdfToText\Pdf::getText('book.pdf') ``` By default the package will assume that the `pdftotext` is located at `/usr/bin/pdftotext`. If you're using the a different location pass the path to the binary in constructor ``` $text = (new Pdf('/custom/path/to/pdftotext')) ->setPdf('book.pdf') ->text(); ``` or as the second parameter to the `getText`-function: ``` \JBPapp\PdfToText\Pdf::getText('book.pdf', '/custom/path/to/pdftotext') ``` Change log ---------- [](#change-log) Please see [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for more information what has changed recently. Testing ------- [](#testing) ``` $ composer test ``` Contributing ------------ [](#contributing) Please see [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) for details. Security -------- [](#security) If you discover any security related issues, please email instead of using the issue tracker. Credits ------- [](#credits) - [Janos Papp](https://github.com/jbpapp) - [Freek Van der Herten](https://github.com/freekmurze) - [All Contributors](../../contributors) License ------- [](#license) The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE.md) for more information. ### Health Score 29 — LowBetter than 57% of packages Maintenance20 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity16 Limited adoption so far Community8 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity60 Established project with proven stability 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. 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