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[nycphp-talk] Searching PDF files?

csnyder at chxo.com csnyder at chxo.com
Thu Jan 8 12:19:09 EST 2004


Quoting tom at supertom.com:

> Hey folks, a question about PDF files:
> 
> In Google's search results, they are able to search PDF files.  Anyone know
> how this is done, and if it can be done in PHP?
> 

There are a number of Unix solutions for PDF -> HTML translation ( and very few
that go the other direction, unfortunately ).

If nothing else, you could shell_exec() to something like pdftohtml:
http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/




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