How to get text from PDF?

[Shahid]

Hi all,

I have my web server bases on linux. I am working on a project for
which I need to get text out of PDF file. I need to know which text
belongs to which PDF page number?

Is there any utility/tool that should be installed on linux and I can
use it from command line in PHP through exec() or system() etc for
this purpose?

Please reply me urgently.

Thanks in advance.

 

[smallpond]

Hi all,

I have my web server bases on linux. I am working on a project for
which I need to get text out of PDF file. I need to know which text
belongs to which PDF page number?

Is there any utility/tool that should be installed on linux and I can
use it from command line in PHP through exec() or system() etc for
this purpose?

Please reply me urgently.

Thanks in advance.

There is a module on CPAN called PDF::OCR::Thorough which attempts
to extract text from pdf docs. I've never used it and it looks like
a fair amount of work to set up. If the pdf file has a known simple
structure, there may be easier ways.