I am generating a PDF using the TCPDF library and would like to convert the pdf to an image. Anyone know if this is possible with TCPDF itself (I've looked over the code but doesn't look possible)?
Looking at previous questions on here it appears the best method is to use ImageMagick - is that still the case?
ImageMagick and Ghostscript would be the way to go to do that. I would assume that running the gs or convert commands from the command line is a bit more efficient since you dont have to load the imagemagick extension in PHP and it cuts the overhead from using abstraction classes for the extension.
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I am a beginner in Symfony2.
I want to convert a PDF file in to HTML keeping the same look and feel
Well, I tried some libraries, exclusively for Linux, but here is my intermediate conclusion.
PDFtoHTML is too old and doesn't take in consideration all new PDF Specifications, for example PDF 1.7 (mainly because it use xpdf 2.02, while xpdf is already in his 3 version)
Instead of PDFTOHTML I found Poppler that continues the PDFtoHTML development plus some new utils very useful. Actually, in Open Source Poppler was the one who rendered better my complex PDF. Here one almost equal I've to use.
Finally, here is it what I'm gonna use. ImageMagick + Poppler. I will convert my PDF to images and use the XML output from Poppler of PDFtoHTML to add a new layer on my image.
I want to create auto Thumbnail if i upload my PDF, then i will save that path
i build my website with yii framework
i want to try capture with ImageMagick
Any Body Help..
Thx
I am also using Yii framework to generate the image file. It is pretty simple and straight forward. I am using window XP/apache and php 5.4
Download and install the imagemagick http://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php
Download and install php extension for imagemagic http://pecl.php.net/package/imagick
Download and install the ghostscript because image magic use the ghost script to convert the pdf to images http://www.ghostscript.com/download/
Write a method in your model class to handle conversion
use command : command format OR
use library : php manual
Call the method after your form submission.
check if the image is saved at the desired location. I hope that help. Let me know if you face any issue.
I know you asked about ImageMagick but maybe you could use GD instead to accomplish such simple operation.
It's available virtually on every hosting.
Examples in comments below docs.
http://php.net/manual/en/book.image.php
i run a job search site, and i need to convert doc, docx and pdf files into HTML on linux CentOS server running php. People submit these files as resumes. So far, I found PHPDocx to be great at converting docx to html. But I am stuck at doc/pdf. PDFTOHTML gives error "bad color" when i run tests. As far as doc, i only found wvwave, which seems complex and bulky to install.
does anyone have any ideas on how to easily convert doc/pdf to HTML?
The only thing i can think of is FPDF.
It is intended for creating PDF files in PHP but it can also open PDF files.
Maybe you can use that as a base and develop some sort of toHTML function for it.
It is completely free to use and it has some extensions already.
It MIGHT help you.
http://www.fpdf.org
EDIT:
Thanks for the addition to my post in the comments to Pierre:
You can use fpdi: http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi but the input pdf is just like an image.
I havent taken a look at it myself so far but this might help.
As far as .doc files go how about trying OpenOffice/LibreOffice, something like:
lowriter -convert-to html doc_file.doc –
As far as PDF goes, if the PDF is a graphical representation of text then you're out of luck, best you can do is try convert it to an image with ImageMagick, if it is a proper text it should easily convert.
There are various tools out there already to do this, such as http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/, http://www.phpdocx.com/ (which you've already tried)
http://www.phplivedocx.org/2009/08/13/convert-docx-doc-rtf-to-html-in-php/ looks promising.
Or, you could install a portable version of libreoffice on your server which allows command line conversion
https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Starting_the_Software_With_Parameters
I'm sure there'll be tutorials out there (on libreoffice support area)
To easily convert pdf to html, I would suggest pdf2htmlEX which produces outstanding HTML and is fast enough for runtime converting. You should first put some effort to optimize and build it for your system. There is simple build howto included on the project link.
I'm faced with having to generate some fairly basic PDFs on a server which is running php 4.3.2 unfortunately.
So that pretty much renders most things impossible such as google's domPDF etc.. PDFlib is not compiled in so I can't use any of that either.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!
use this R&OS PDF Class to achieve this task.. This is fairly simple and light weight class and requires no module etc to be installed on the server.
You could try out DocRaptor.com, which is a webservice that will let you convert html to pdf.
I ended up using an older version of fpdf and HTML2PDF (from the link below.) It's certainly not ideal, but then neither is a 7 year old version of php.
http://www.macronimous.com/resources/Converting_HTML2PDF_using_PHP.asp
You didn't mention if you were generating these from scratch or from existing PDF data. pdftk is a handy PDF manipulation library. You can shell out to it from PHP.
I'm working on a project in PHP that needs to render dynamically-created SVG images to PNG (or GIF if not PNG) format. I know I can do this by invoking a SVG renderer like rsvg, or with an extension like ImageMagick, which isn't that common*.
Is there a "drop-in" style library that can render SVG using things like GD and DomDocument?
* Available in common webhosts and in packages like XAMPP.
To clarify, I already have the SVG itself generated, I just need it to be rendered server-size.
It shouldn't be too hard to do yourself. SVG is a fairly simple specification, so there shouldn't be too much guess work building a converter... The only difficult parts that I can see would be gradients, markers and filters. The rest should be relatively straight forward when looking at the gd functions available.
Obviously, the best would be to find a stand alone library, but if you can't you could always roll one yourself...
If you have Java on the server, you can use Batik's SVG Rasterizer, which comes as a standalone executable JAR. Call it using PHP exec.