PHP and ABBY recognition save to variable - php

Question

i am using the ABBY API for OCR and i want to get the results in a variable for further processing instead of downloading the result as a file
<?php
include_once("dBug.php");
// Name of application you created
$applicationId = 'telianewtest';
// Password should be sent to your e-mail after application was created
$password = 'w0Ye61tWZ6fODm7hIUj9XTeJ';
$fileName = '20080118155747372_Page_2.jpg';
// Get path to file that we are going to recognize
$local_directory=dirname(__FILE__).'/images/';
$filePath = $local_directory.'/'.$fileName;
if(!file_exists($filePath))
{
die('File '.$filePath.' not found.');
}
if(!is_readable($filePath) )
{
die('Access to file '.$filePath.' denied.');
}
// Recognizing with English language to rtf
// You can use combination of languages like ?language=english,russian or
// ?language=english,french,dutch
// For details, see API reference for processImage method
$url = 'http://cloud.ocrsdk.com/processImage?language=english&exportFormat=xml';
// Send HTTP POST request and ret xml response
$curlHandle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$applicationId:$password");
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "PHP Cloud OCR SDK Sample");
$post_array = array(
"my_file"=>"#".$filePath,
);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_array);
$response = curl_exec($curlHandle);
if($response == FALSE) {
$errorText = curl_error($curlHandle);
curl_close($curlHandle);
die($errorText);
}
$httpCode = curl_getinfo($curlHandle, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($curlHandle);
// Parse xml response
$xml = simplexml_load_string($response);
if($httpCode != 200) {
if(property_exists($xml, "message")) {
die($xml->message);
}
die("unexpected response ".$response);
}
$arr = $xml->task[0]->attributes();
$taskStatus = $arr["status"];
if($taskStatus != "Queued") {
die("Unexpected task status ".$taskStatus);
}
// Task id
$taskid = $arr["id"];
// 4. Get task information in a loop until task processing finishes
// 5. If response contains "Completed" staus - extract url with result
// 6. Download recognition result (text) and display it
$url = 'http://cloud.ocrsdk.com/getTaskStatus';
$qry_str = "?taskid=$taskid";
// Check task status in a loop until it is finished
// TODO: support states indicating error
while(true)
{
sleep(5);
$curlHandle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_URL, $url.$qry_str);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$applicationId:$password");
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "PHP Cloud OCR SDK Sample");
$response = curl_exec($curlHandle);
$httpCode = curl_getinfo($curlHandle, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($curlHandle);
// parse xml
$xml = simplexml_load_string($response);
if($httpCode != 200) {
if(property_exists($xml, "message")) {
die($xml->message);
}
die("Unexpected response ".$response);
}
$arr = $xml->task[0]->attributes();
$taskStatus = $arr["status"];
if($taskStatus == "Queued" || $taskStatus == "InProgress") {
// continue waiting
continue;
}
if($taskStatus == "Completed") {
// exit this loop and proceed to handling the result
break;
}
if($taskStatus == "ProcessingFailed") {
die("Task processing failed: ".$arr["error"]);
}
die("Unexpected task status ".$taskStatus);
}
// Result is ready. Download it
$url = $arr["resultUrl"];
$curlHandle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
// Warning! This is for easier out-of-the box usage of the sample only.
// The URL to the result has https:// prefix, so SSL is required to
// download from it. For whatever reason PHP runtime fails to perform
// a request unless SSL certificate verification is off.
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
$response = curl_exec($curlHandle);
curl_close($curlHandle);
// Let user donwload rtf result
header('Content-type: application/txt');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="file.xml"');
echo $response;
?>
I tried to access the $xml variable with now success... any ideas?
Thank you in advance
(I have included the password since its a demo account, you can check it out if you want)