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[PDF & Document Generation](/categories/documents) 4. / 5. php-pdfbox/php-pdfbox ActiveLibrary[PDF & Document Generation](/categories/documents) php-pdfbox/php-pdfbox ===================== PHP-PDFBox v2.0.4(2y ago)72.1k↓33.3%7[1 issues](https://github.com/php-pdfbox/php-pdfbox/issues)MITPHPPHP ^8.1 Since Jul 9Pushed 3mo ago2 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/php-pdfbox/php-pdfbox)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/php-pdfbox/php-pdfbox)[ Docs](https://github.com/php-pdfbox/php-pdfbox)[ RSS](/packages/php-pdfbox-php-pdfbox/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago READMEChangelog (6)Dependencies (2)Versions (11)Used By (0) PHP-PDFbox ========== [](#php-pdfbox) PHP-PDFBox is a tiny library which acts as a wrapper facilitating the use of PDFBox in PHP. It provides a simple API for calling the pdfbox-app.jar. The library is currently restricted to functionality provided by PDFbox's command-line utilities. It currently supports PDFBox version 2. PDFBox is published under the Apache License v2.0 and is described as "The Apache PDFBox® library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents." Installation ------------ [](#installation) It is recommended to install PHP-PDFBox through [Composer](http://getcomposer.org) : ``` { "require": { "php-pdfbox/php-pdfbox": "^2.0" } } ``` pdfbox-app.jar is included in the installation. You can/should verify the integrity of pdfbox-app.jar with the PGP signatures available at . Main API usage: --------------- [](#main-api-usage) Basic usage can be done as follows: ``` $file = new \Pdfbox\Processor\PdfFile( new Pdfbox( '/path/to/java', '/path/to/pdfbox-app.jar' ); ); // Convert pdf to text echo $file->toText('test.pdf'); ``` (Providing a Logger object is optional in v2.0.2+.) To use with psr/log and a PSR-3 compliant logger, do something like: ``` use Psr\Log\LoggerInterface; use MyPSR3Logger; class Foo { private $logger; public function __construct(LoggerInterface $logger = null){ $this->logger = $logger; } public function doPdfBox(){ try { $file = new \Pdfbox\Processor\PdfFile( new Pdfbox( '/path/to/java', '/path/to/pdfbox-app.jar', $this->logger; ); ); // Convert pdf to text echo $file->toText('test.pdf'); } catch (Exception $e) { $this->logger->error($e->getMessage(), ['exception', $e->backtrace()]); } } } $myLogger = new MyPSR3Logger(); $foo = new Foo($myLogger); ``` See `examples/ConsoleLogger.php` for a standard PSR3 compliant logger class that can be be copied and adapted. See `examples/*.php` for more examples. API Documentation ----------------- [](#api-documentation) HTML Documentation generated by [phpDocumentor](https://phpdoc.org/) can be found in [`docs/api`](docs/api/index.html). License ------- [](#license) PHP-Pdfbox is released under MIT License See LICENSE file for more information. ### Health Score 46 — FairBetter than 93% of packages Maintenance52 Moderate activity, may be stable Popularity28 Limited adoption so far Community13 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity77 Established project with proven stability Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 86.7% 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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