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A package to extract text from a pdf

Original – by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

For a project I needed to extract some text from a pdf. Although there were already a few packages that could to this, I still created spatie/pdf-to-text because I wanted something that was really easy to use. And also because it's fun creating packages.

Under the hood a utility called pdftotext is used. I provided some instructions in the readme on how to install that.

Here's an example of how to extract text from a pdf using the package:

Spatie\PdfToText\Pdf::getText('book.pdf');

And that's all there is to it, really.

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