how can I get image and text from pdf file ?
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Description
I get all image or all text from pdf with no typesetting
now,
I want to get the image and text in the whole pdf according to the layout
How do I do it?
get text code
<?php
require './vendor/autoload.php';
use Smalot\PdfParser\XObject\Form;
use Smalot\PdfParser\XObject\Image;
$fileSavePath = "./doc/img/";
$filename = "./doc/test.pdf";
toRun($filename,$fileSavePath);
function toRun($filename,$fileSavePath){
$parser = new \Smalot\PdfParser\Parser();
$pdf = $parser->parseFile($filename);
$pages = $pdf->getPages();
foreach ($pages as $page) {
echo $page->getText();
}
}
get img text
<?php
require './vendor/autoload.php';
use Smalot\PdfParser\XObject\Form;
use Smalot\PdfParser\XObject\Image;
$fileSavePath = "./doc/img/";
$filename = "./doc/test.pdf";
toRun($filename,$fileSavePath);
/**
* @throws \Exception
*/
function toRun($filename,$fileSavePath){
$parser = new \Smalot\PdfParser\Parser();
$pdf = $parser->parseFile($filename);
$i = 0;
$xobjects = $pdf->getObjectsByType('XObject');
foreach( $xobjects as $obj ) {
if ($obj instanceof Image) {
$content = $obj->getContent();
file_put_contents($fileSavePath. ++$i .".png", $content);
}
}
}
?>
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Start by reading the Parser usage shown in the issue, especially getPages(), getText(), getObjectsByType('XObject'), and the Image handling example. Clarify the expected layout-preserving output and behavior for the supplied PDF before determining what implementation and tests would be needed; done means extracting text and images in the requested document order.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- php
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100