This package provides a class to extract text from a pdf. It is more or less a PHP 5.6 compatible copy of spatie/pdf-to-text.

  \Ottosmops\Pdftotext\Extract::getText('/path/to/file.pdf') //returns the text from the pdf

The Package uses pdftotext. Make sure that this is installed: which pdftotext

For Installation see: poppler-utils

If the installed binary is not found ("The command "which pdftotext" failed.") you can pass the full path to the _constructor (see below) or use putenv('PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/:/usr/bin') (with the dir where pdftotext lives) before you call the class Extract.

composer require ottosmops/pdftotext

Extracting text from a pdf:

$text = (new Extract())
    ->pdf('file.pdf')
    ->text();

You can set the binary and you can specify options:

$text = (new Extract('/path/to/pdftotext'))
    ->pdf('path/to/file.pdf')
    ->options('-layout')
    ->text();

Default options are: -eol unix -enc UTF-8 -raw

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.