# PdfParser #

Pdf Parser, a standalone PHP library, provides various tools to extract data from a PDF file.

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Website : [https://www.pdfparser.org](https://www.pdfparser.org/?utm_source=GitHub&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=GitHub)

Test the API on our [demo page](https://www.pdfparser.org/demo).

This project is supported by [Actualys](http://www.actualys.com).

## Features ##

Features included :

- Load/parse objects and headers
- Extract meta data (author, description, ...)
- Extract text from ordered pages
- Support of compressed pdf
- Support of MAC OS Roman charset encoding
- Handling of hexa and octal encoding in text sections
- PSR-0 compliant ([autoloader](https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-0.md))
- PSR-1 compliant ([code styling](https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-1-basic-coding-standard.md))

Currently, secured documents are not supported.

**This Library is under active maintenance.**
There is no active development by the author of this library (at the moment), but we welcome any pull request adding/extending functionality!

## Documentation ##

[Read the documentation on website](http://www.pdfparser.org/documentation?utm_source=GitHub&utm_medium=documentation&utm_campaign=GitHub).

Original PDF References files can be downloaded from this url: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference_archive.html

## Installation

### Using Composer

* Obtain [Composer](https://getcomposer.org)
* Run `composer require smalot/pdfparser`

### Use alternate file loader

In case you can't use Composer, you can include `alt_autoload.php-dist` into your project.
It will load all required files at once.
Afterwards you can use `PDFParser` class and others.

## License ##

This library is under the [LGPLv3 license](https://github.com/smalot/pdfparser/blob/master/LICENSE.txt).
