Can we read PDF using PHP?
I want to read single page pdf file by php. If yes please give me some example. Single class file is more appropriate.
There are a variety of techniques to read PDF using PHP. I won't be using the code in here because it is not appropriate on the premise that we don't know what is your exact use case. But here are a few links that could help you out. In no particular order,
FPDF: http://www.fpdf.org/
FPDF is a PDF reader for PHP. The one below, is more like a converter.
PDF TO HTML http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/
Free PDF Document Importer: http://www.setasign.com/products/fpdi/about/
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Is there a way in PHP that can open remote PDF file, searching for specific text, replace it with new one & save the modified PDF file on the server?
Thanks
You can use a combination of tools or just one of them. Depends on how complex the file is and how much noise either of these generates.
DomPDF - converts HTML to PDF.
TCPDF - creates PDF files.
FPDI - uses already existing PDF files.
My personal recommendation would be to go for FPDI.
After many days of research, there is no plugin can extract pdf data from 'extraction protected' PDF.
I've been looking for a solution to generate PDF from some data I have on a database. Currently I put it on an HTML and then print to PDF, but they asked me to save directly to PDF. These are documents that vary a lot in design, so before it was easy to change a margin or a font size, but now they asking for a direct PDF output it's more difficult, so I saw that LiveDocx is a great solution for me... but these documents are very private (illneses, income...) and my bosses don't want to send any document to a server. So I'm looking for some other solutions. The perfect workaround is doing what LiveDocx proposes (You have a template in a Docx format that you can modify whenever you want, and then you can send some data to the template to fill the gaps and of course save to PDF) but in my own server. Do you know something like this?
My platform is based on PHP+Zend Framework, so it should be compatible with that.
Thank you!!
Well instead of using LiveDocx, i found a really cool Library. mPDF an MIT Licensed library that transfers HTML Code to a pdf document. Its simple and great. Let me know if this helped you and if you need more help.
AND ontop of all that, you can write your data directly to the pdf document. You can input an html file into the pdf writer IF you want. If not then yes you can use their write function to write data directly to pdf.
I am trying to extract the table from database and trying to open it in .pdf-file, but i am facing problem in opening to it in .pdf-file , when i am trying it prompt a message which is given below,
"Acrobat could not open "Report.pdf" because it is either not a
supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example,
it was sent as an eamil attachment and wasnt correctly decoded).
To create an adobe PDF document,go to the source application. then
print the document to Adobe PDF."
Generating a pdf file in php can be difficult. http://www.fpdf.org/ seems to be recommended, but i have never used it. Otherwise, please post some code as a lot of the PHP pdf functions are depreciated http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php
You can use fpdf to create pdf files..
See http://www.fpdf.org/
See this for simple tutorial on dpdf http://www.elated.com/articles/create-nice-looking-pdfs-php-fpdf/
I need to generate a pdf file by adding pages from an already generated pdf using only php or javascript.
I tried fpdf but could not find any appropriate function. Is there a method I could use to do this?
There is an extension that should allow this to work called FPDI
That being said, I've not had a ton of luck through the years using FPDF. I've always fallen back to DomPDF or the likes. Like anything Adobe touches, PDF is not the most friendly tool in the world for those of us charged to make them work.
Try this:
http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi/
As an example, I have actually been able to generate excel files by changing the content-type for an html document. In this scenario, I would use php to generate the table cells with information gathered from the database and then set the content-type before the page is rendered. Is there a way to do this for pdf's?
Easiest way to generate PDF is by using DOMPDF. Learn more about DomPDF on Google's Projects.
It is extremely simple:
Generate HTML page
Make a call to DomPDF
Download/Save your PDF
Here is demo showing how easy and fast it is.
Because you are using Joomla you can create PDF view.
Create view called view.pdf.php in the view directory, include template and PDF will be generated automatically. Unfortunately Joomla's PDF is very plain... just text, images and other basic elements.
have actually been able to generate excel files by changing the content-type for an html document.
Well, not really: You have been building a HTML file, that Excel happens to be able to parse, and wrongly declaring it as a native Excel file. (I mean no criticism with this - the method works fine within its limitations - but to be exact. :)
As far as I know, this is not possible to do for PDF. You'll have to generate a PDF file using a library, or send the page to a PDF printer on the client's side.
If you have a simple HTML then I suggest you use TCPDF to generate your PDF output. Just check out example 6 and 61 on the TCPDF examples page to see how easy it is to generate PDFs based on a subset of HTML.
You need to use a library to generate the PDF document. You can't just change the content-type like you did for Excel.
Try http://www.fpdf.org/
require('fpdf.php');
$pdf=new FPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont('Arial','B',16);
$pdf->Cell(40,10,'Hello World!');
$pdf->Output();
As well an fpdf there's also tcpdf which is worth checking out.
Also, if you are interested in generating actual Excel files then have a look at PHPExcel.