How to extract text from a PDF? [closed]

Answer 1

I know that this topic is quite old, but this need is still alive. I read many documents, forum and script and build a new advanced one which supports compressed and uncompressed pdf :

https://gist.github.com/smalot/6183152

In some cases, command line is forbidden for security reasons. So a native PHP class can fit many needs.

Hope it helps everone

Answer 2

For python, there is PDFMiner and pyPDF2. For more information on these, see Python module for converting PDF to text.

Answer 3

Docotic.Pdf library may be used to extract text from PDF files as plain text or as a collection of text chunks with coordinates for each chunk.

Docotic.Pdf can be used to extract images from PDFs, too.

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