smalot/pdfparser

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

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Dominant language: PHP
License: LGPL-3.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
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199 open issues indexed

Vulnerability reporting Open

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smalot/pdfparser#839 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Object stream parsing can exhaust PCRE JIT and read a missing capture Open

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smalot/pdfparser#835 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
chr(): Providing a value not in-between 0 and 255 is deprecated Open

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smalot/pdfparser#834 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Compilation failed: regular expression is too large at offset Open

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smalot/pdfparser#833 · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Font::loadTranslateTable() mis-parses bfrange destination arrays and may enter enormous loop Open

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smalot/pdfparser#832 · Opened Jul 15, 2026
Parsing form object that is referenced by Do command Open

feature request

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smalot/pdfparser#802 · Opened Apr 24, 2026
Identified Images cannot be converted to image due to invalid (?) content Open

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smalot/pdfparser#774 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 20, 2025
Invalid object reference for $obj. Open

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smalot/pdfparser#770 · 3 comments · Opened May 13, 2025
Integration of MinerU Open

question stale

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smalot/pdfparser#769 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 26, 2025
Possible startxrefPreg extension Open

fix

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smalot/pdfparser#756 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 15, 2025
Words containing "ff" are not parsing properly Open

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smalot/pdfparser#755 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 6, 2025
Parsing table columns Open

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smalot/pdfparser#752 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 21, 2024
gettext exracts partial text from pdf, only heading from each page Open

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smalot/pdfparser#751 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 10, 2024
Some PDF documents contain text that I can't extract Open

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smalot/pdfparser#750 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 5, 2024
Embedded png image cannot be parsed Open

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smalot/pdfparser#749 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 5, 2024
Parser is skipping the first page Open

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smalot/pdfparser#748 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 22, 2024
Extracting graphics from a PDF Open

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smalot/pdfparser#747 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 14, 2024
Issue With Parsing Graphical PDF Open

needs more info stale

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smalot/pdfparser#746 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 13, 2024
Fund PDFParser: Thoughts and decisions Open

enhancement help wanted

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smalot/pdfparser#742 · 14 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 14, 2024
phpunit pdf tofu characters detection Open

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smalot/pdfparser#741 · Opened Oct 10, 2024
Undefined variable in ->getObjectsByType('EmbeddedFile') but there is an attachment inside given Open

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smalot/pdfparser#740 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 10, 2024
Rect value for some PDF form fields doesn't contain floating point numbers but rather strings like #Obj#32_0 Open

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smalot/pdfparser#738 · Opened Oct 2, 2024
HorizontalOffset is not supported anymore Open

needs more info

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smalot/pdfparser#736 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2024
Allowed memory size exhausted on Font.php line 150 Open

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smalot/pdfparser#735 · 14 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2024
Problems with getText() on PDF documents with UTF16BE encoding Open

bug de-/encoding issue

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smalot/pdfparser#734 · Opened Sep 6, 2024
PHP Warning: Undefined array key "FirstChar" in Smalot/PdfParser/Font.php on line 291 Open

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smalot/pdfparser#731 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 5, 2024
Metadata content garbled for some PDFs Open

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smalot/pdfparser#730 · Opened Aug 1, 2024
PDFs made with MS Edge don't parse Open

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smalot/pdfparser#726 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 18, 2024
getDataTm() with PDF containing accents Open

bug needs more info

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smalot/pdfparser#725 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 13, 2024
Duplicate images in PDF > Find which pages it occurs on Open

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smalot/pdfparser#718 · Opened Jun 5, 2024
getDataTm returns empty array for one page only Open

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smalot/pdfparser#717 · 2 comments · Opened May 31, 2024
Closing round bracket encoded in hexadecimal format breaks parsing Open

fix needs more info

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smalot/pdfparser#715 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 24, 2024
Facing an Error: Invalid object reference for $obj. Open

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smalot/pdfparser#714 · 3 comments · Opened May 22, 2024
Possibility to improve parsing perfomance by not using uniqid() and add an early return? Open

enhancement

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smalot/pdfparser#712 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 15, 2024
How to get images and text in order as in PDF? Open

question

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smalot/pdfparser#705 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 29, 2024
can't parse fdpf file from 1.86 version of FPDF and works fine with FPDF 1.81 Open

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smalot/pdfparser#703 · 8 comments · Opened Apr 15, 2024
Wrong Character - can detect this ? Open

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smalot/pdfparser#702 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 10, 2024
Having error when trying to get details from pdf page generated with html emoji code inside pdf text Open

bug de-/encoding issue

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smalot/pdfparser#701 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 10, 2024
Class PDFDocEncoding does not extend AbstractEncoding Open

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smalot/pdfparser#699 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 5, 2024
Parsing with unknown text. Help me resolve Open

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smalot/pdfparser#697 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 4, 2024
Image position relative to pages (Or text if possible) Open

bug needs more info PDF required to demonstrate issue

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smalot/pdfparser#694 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 21, 2024
PNG Images with FlateDecode are corrupt Open

bug

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smalot/pdfparser#688 · 12 comments · Opened Mar 7, 2024
Dropping support for PHP 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3? Open

help wanted question

smalot/pdfparser#685 · 2 comments · 9 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 1, 2024
Error when obtaining array from a PDF Open

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smalot/pdfparser#681 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 25, 2024
LZW decode (infinie loop) Open

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smalot/pdfparser#678 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 19, 2024
getText() returns text without any spaces when using a pdf from google docs Open

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smalot/pdfparser#675 · 19 comments · Opened Feb 9, 2024
completely different output for table data (2.7.0 vs 2.8.0) Open

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smalot/pdfparser#674 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 9, 2024
Text Layout are unpredictable Open

invalid needs more info

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smalot/pdfparser#672 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 1, 2024
getDataTm() positions wrong? Open

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smalot/pdfparser#671 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 1, 2024
Chinese text problems Open

bug de-/encoding issue parsing fail

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smalot/pdfparser#664 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 6, 2024

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