Extracting Data from PDF Using Java or PHP

use Monolog\Logger;
use Monolog\Handler\NullHandler;
use XPDF\PdfToText;

// Create a logger
$logger = new Logger('MyLogger');
$logger->pushHandler(new NullHandler());

// You have to pass a Monolog logger
// This logger provides some usefull infos about what's happening
$pdfToText = PdfToText::load($logger);

// open PDF
$pdfToText->open('PDF-book.pdf');

// PDF text is now in the $text variable
$text = $pdfToText->getText();
$pdfToText->close();

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// convert to html string
$html = $pdf->html();

// convert a specific page to html string
$page = $pdf->html(3);

// convert to html and return it as [Dom Object](https://github.com/paquettg/php-html-parser)
$dom = $pdf->getDom();

// check if your pdf has more than one pages
$total_pages = $pdf->getPages();

// Your pdf happen to have more than one pages and you want to go another page? Got it. use this command to change the current page to page 3
$dom->goToPage(3);

// and then you can do as you please with that dom, you can find any element you want
$paragraphs = $dom->find('body > p');

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set WshShell = wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
WshShell.Run("program.exe " & "command line code")

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https://php-xpdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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http://www.xpdfreader.com/support.html

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{
    "require": {
        "monolog/monolog": "^1.25",
        "php-console/php-console": "^3.1"
	"php-xpdf/php-xpdf": "master"
    }
}

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https://github.com/alchemy-fr/PHP-XPDF

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