Extracting text from pdf

[JustinCase]

Hi,

I have to index the text of a pdf document.

Does any of you know of a PHP script/extension or a binary that is able
to extract the text ?

The pdf extension mentioned in the php.net docs seem to indicate that
it's for _creation_ of documents only, is that so? Same with all the
PHP classes i have found.

Regards,
Johnny

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[Alvaro G Vicario]

Re: Extracting text from pdf

*** JustinCase wrote/escribió (25 Oct 2004 16:09:36 GMT):[color=blue]
> Does any of you know of a PHP script/extension or a binary that is able
> to extract the text ?[/color]

There's a Unix program that might help you: ps2ascii

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[JustinCase]

Re: Extracting text from pdf

On 25-10-2004 Alvaro G Vicario wrote:
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>*** JustinCase wrote/escribió (25 Oct 2004 16:09:36 GMT):[color=green]
>> Does any of you know of a PHP script/extension or a binary that is
>>able to extract the text ?[/color]
>
>There's a Unix program that might help you: ps2ascii[/color]

Thanks for the pointer,
I'll have a look

/Johnny

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[JustinCase]

Re: Extracting text from pdf

On 25-10-2004 Alvaro G Vicario wrote:
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>*** JustinCase wrote/escribió (25 Oct 2004 16:09:36 GMT):[color=green]
>> Does any of you know of a PHP script/extension or a binary that is
>>able to extract the text ?[/color]
>
>There's a Unix program that might help you: ps2ascii[/color]

Does anyone know of any other tool for PDF text extraction ?


ps2ascii cannot seem to parse all of the pdf file. I tried the pstotext
tool to, but with same result.
I figured that it has something to do with my ghostscript version being
too old (7.05, newest is 8.14).

Unfortunally I have no experience in installing/upgrading unix stuff
(having spend half an evening trying in vain and confusion).



Regards,
Johnny

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[Darien Kruss]

Re: Extracting text from pdf



xpdf will do this

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

I use it with the namazu search tool (http://www.namazu.org/) to
provide search capabilities on websites that span web pages, office
docs, and PDF files.


In article <xn0doykmn5tq0t 000@news.tele.d k>, JustinCase <no@spam> wrote:
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> On 25-10-2004 Alvaro G Vicario wrote:
>[color=green]
> >*** JustinCase wrote/escribió (25 Oct 2004 16:09:36 GMT):[color=darkred]
> >> Does any of you know of a PHP script/extension or a binary that is
> >>able to extract the text ?[/color]
> >
> >There's a Unix program that might help you: ps2ascii[/color]
>
> Does anyone know of any other tool for PDF text extraction ?
>
>
> ps2ascii cannot seem to parse all of the pdf file. I tried the pstotext
> tool to, but with same result.
> I figured that it has something to do with my ghostscript version being
> too old (7.05, newest is 8.14).
>
> Unfortunally I have no experience in installing/upgrading unix stuff
> (having spend half an evening trying in vain and confusion).
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Johnny[/color]

[JustinCase]

Re: Extracting text from pdf

On 26-10-2004 Darien Kruss wrote:
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>
>
>xpdf will do this
>http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
>
>I use it with the namazu search tool (http://www.namazu.org/) to
>provide search capabilities on websites that span web pages, office
>docs, and PDF files.
>
>[/color]


Hi Darian,

Perfect.

Funny though. I'd been to the site a few times in my search but had
somehow concluded that xpdf was not what I wanted. Looking too hard can
make you miss the obvious, eh !? So many hairs could still be resting
comfortably on my head. :)

Thanks,
Johnny

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