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PHP-Poppler

1.0.1(11y ago)85.2k4[1 issues](https://github.com/php-poppler/php-poppler/issues)1MITPHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Nov 27Pushed 11y ago2 watchersCompare

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\#PHP Poppler

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/c60474ab2a86a1738f071f0581838cbcc6b0c23cb541332ce03e555eec4c3c4e/68747470733a2f2f7365637572652e7472617669732d63692e6f72672f7068702d706f70706c65722f7068702d706f70706c65722e706e673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](http://travis-ci.org/php-poppler/php-poppler)

PHP-Poppler is a tiny lib which help you to use Poppler tools

Poppler is GPL licensed and is described as "Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base."

Documentation available at

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

It is recommended to install PHP-Poppler through [Composer](http://getcomposer.org) :

```
{
    "require": {
        "php-poppler/php-poppler": "~0.1.0"
    }
}
```

\##Dependencies :

In order to use PHP-Poppler, you need to install Poppler. Depending of your configuration, please follow the instructions at .

\##Main API usage :

```
$file = new Poppler\Process\PdfFile(...);

// Get pdf info
print_r($file->getInfo('test.pdf'));

// Get text content of pdf
echo $file->toText('test.pdf');

// Transform to html
$file->toHtml('test.pdf', '/path/for/html');

##License

PHP-Poppler are released under MIT License http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

See LICENSE file for more information
```

###  Health Score

32

—

LowBetter than 72% of packages

Maintenance18

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity25

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

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

Every ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

4188d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

pdfpoppler

###  Code Quality

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