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mike-k-burke/php-rtflex
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A simple library to allow parsing of RTF files and strings. Forked from skyh13/php-rtflex which is a fork of silvermine/php-rtflex.

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RTFLex
======

[](#rtflex)

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RTFLex is a simple lexer / tokenizer for RTF formatted data.

Example Usage
-------------

[](#example-usage)

RTFLex allows you to easily extract plain text from an RTF formatted file, or a text string containing RTF formatting. Here's how you would read an RTF file:

```
require_once "rtflex/RTFLexer.php";

use RTFLex\io\StreamReader;
use RTFLex\tokenizer\RTFTokenizer;
use RTFLex\tree\RTFDocument;

$reader = new StreamReader('/path/to/myFile.rtf');
$tokenizer = new RTFTokenizer($reader);
$doc = new RTFDocument($tokenizer);
echo $doc->extractText();

```

While RTFLex uses namespaces to organize it's inner-workings, it also provides a simple, global, front-end class for easy of use. This accomplishes the same as the above code:

```
require_once "rtflex/RTFLexer.php";

$doc = RTFLexer::file('/path/to/myFile.rtf');
echo $doc->extractText();

```

RTFLex also lets you easily extract hidden metadata from an RTF file. Take, for example, the follow RTF header:

```
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf1187\cocoasubrtf370
{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Helvetica;}
{\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;}
{\info
{\title Sample Title}
{\subject Sample Subject}
{\author Craig Weber}
{\*\company silvermine}
{\*\copyright 2013 silvermine.}}\margl1440\margr1440\vieww10800\viewh8400\viewkind0
\pard\tx720\tx1440\tx2160\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\pardirnatural
...

```

Using the RTFDocument class, it's easy to extract those field.

```
$doc = RTFLexer::file('/path/to/myFile.rtf');
echo $doc->extractMetadata('title');     // => "Sample Title"
echo $doc->extractMetadata('copyright'); // => "2013 silvermine."

```

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity54

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 53.8% 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 ~208 days

Total

6

Last Release

2876d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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###  Code Quality

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