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skuola/pdf-text-parser
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Library to parse XML resulting from pdftotext

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PDF text parser
===============

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This library is a parser for XML text files obtained via [pdftotext](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftotext)

You can install it using `composer require skuola/pdf-text-parser`

Suppose you're just converted a pdf file, getting some text like the following:

```

    Lorem
    ipsum

```

The above text is the result of a command like `pdftotext -htmlmeta -bbox-layout yourfile.pdf -`.

You can use this library as follows:

```