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Can you access PDF content programatically?

brucec

10:21 pm on May 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

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I have a client who wants me to create a search engine with content in several PDF documents. Does anyone know how to do this with PHP?

Or, can you point me in the right direction?

Bruce

eeek

11:46 pm on May 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

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You could call gs (ghostscript) to extract text from a PDF file.