Converting PDF to string

Question

How read PDF file and put content into string? Using PHP language.

Answer 1

You could use something like pdftotext which comes with the Xpdf package on linux. The popen command can then be used to pipe the output of pdftotext into a string:

$mystring = "";
$fd = popen("/usr/bin/pdftotext blah.pdf","r");
if ($fd) {
    while (($myline = fgets($fd)) !== false) {
        $mystring .= $myline;
    }
}