This page contains various examples of using the PDF to Text API in PHP. The examples are complete and fully functional. Read more about how to convert PDF to Text in PHP.
<?php require "pdfcrowd.php"; try { // create the API client instance $client = new \Pdfcrowd\PdfToTextClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d"); // run the conversion and write the result to a file $client->convertFileToFile("/path/to/invoice.pdf", "invoice.txt"); } catch(\Pdfcrowd\Error $why) { // report the error error_log("Pdfcrowd Error: {$why}\n"); // rethrow or handle the exception throw $why; } ?>
<?php require "pdfcrowd.php"; try { // create the API client instance $client = new \Pdfcrowd\PdfToTextClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d"); // run the conversion and store the result into the "txt" variable $txt = $client->convertFile("/path/to/invoice.pdf"); // at this point the "txt" variable contains TXT raw data and // can be sent in an HTTP response, saved to a file, etc. } catch(\Pdfcrowd\Error $why) { // report the error error_log("Pdfcrowd Error: {$why}\n"); // rethrow or handle the exception throw $why; } ?>
<?php require "pdfcrowd.php"; try { // create the API client instance $client = new \Pdfcrowd\PdfToTextClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d"); // create an output stream for the conversion result $output_stream = fopen("invoice.txt", "wb"); // check for a file creation error if (!$output_stream) throw new \Exception(error_get_last()['message']); // run the conversion and write the result into the output stream $client->convertFileToStream("/path/to/invoice.pdf", $output_stream); // close the output stream fclose($output_stream); } catch(\Pdfcrowd\Error $why) { // report the error error_log("Pdfcrowd Error: {$why}\n"); // rethrow or handle the exception throw $why; } ?>
<?php require "pdfcrowd.php"; try { // create the API client instance $client = new \Pdfcrowd\PdfToTextClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d"); // run the conversion and write the result to a file $client->convertUrlToFile("https://pdfcrowd.com/static/pdf/apisamples/invoice.pdf", "invoice.txt"); } catch(\Pdfcrowd\Error $why) { // report the error error_log("Pdfcrowd Error: {$why}\n"); // rethrow or handle the exception throw $why; } ?>
<?php require "pdfcrowd.php"; try { // create the API client instance $client = new \Pdfcrowd\PdfToTextClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d"); // run the conversion and store the result into the "txt" variable $txt = $client->convertUrl("https://pdfcrowd.com/static/pdf/apisamples/invoice.pdf"); // at this point the "txt" variable contains TXT raw data and // can be sent in an HTTP response, saved to a file, etc. } catch(\Pdfcrowd\Error $why) { // report the error error_log("Pdfcrowd Error: {$why}\n"); // rethrow or handle the exception throw $why; } ?>
<?php require "pdfcrowd.php"; try { // create the API client instance $client = new \Pdfcrowd\PdfToTextClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d"); // create an output stream for the conversion result $output_stream = fopen("invoice.txt", "wb"); // check for a file creation error if (!$output_stream) throw new \Exception(error_get_last()['message']); // run the conversion and write the result into the output stream $client->convertUrlToStream("https://pdfcrowd.com/static/pdf/apisamples/invoice.pdf", $output_stream); // close the output stream fclose($output_stream); } catch(\Pdfcrowd\Error $why) { // report the error error_log("Pdfcrowd Error: {$why}\n"); // rethrow or handle the exception throw $why; } ?>
<?php require "pdfcrowd.php"; try { // create the API client instance $client = new \Pdfcrowd\PdfToTextClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d"); // run the conversion and write the result to a file $client->convertRawDataToFile(file_get_contents("/path/to/hello_world.pdf"), "invoice.txt"); } catch(\Pdfcrowd\Error $why) { // report the error error_log("Pdfcrowd Error: {$why}\n"); // rethrow or handle the exception throw $why; } ?>
<?php require "pdfcrowd.php"; try { // create the API client instance $client = new \Pdfcrowd\PdfToTextClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d"); // run the conversion and store the result into the "txt" variable $txt = $client->convertRawData(file_get_contents("/path/to/hello_world.pdf")); // at this point the "txt" variable contains TXT raw data and // can be sent in an HTTP response, saved to a file, etc. } catch(\Pdfcrowd\Error $why) { // report the error error_log("Pdfcrowd Error: {$why}\n"); // rethrow or handle the exception throw $why; } ?>
<?php require "pdfcrowd.php"; try { // create the API client instance $client = new \Pdfcrowd\PdfToTextClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d"); // create an output stream for the conversion result $output_stream = fopen("invoice.txt", "wb"); // check for a file creation error if (!$output_stream) throw new \Exception(error_get_last()['message']); // run the conversion and write the result into the output stream $client->convertRawDataToStream(file_get_contents("/path/to/hello_world.pdf"), $output_stream); // close the output stream fclose($output_stream); } catch(\Pdfcrowd\Error $why) { // report the error error_log("Pdfcrowd Error: {$why}\n"); // rethrow or handle the exception throw $why; } ?>
<?php require "pdfcrowd.php"; try { // create the API client instance $client = new \Pdfcrowd\PdfToTextClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d"); // configure the conversion $client->setDebugLog(true); $client->setPageBreakMode("default"); // run the conversion and write the result to a file $client->convertFileToFile("/path/to/invoice.pdf", "invoice.txt"); // print URL to the debug log echo "Debug log url: " . $client->getDebugLogUrl() . "\n"; // print the number of available conversion credits in your account echo "Remaining credit count: " . $client->getRemainingCreditCount() . "\n"; // print the number of credits consumed by the conversion echo "Consumed credit count: " . $client->getConsumedCreditCount() . "\n"; // print the unique ID of the conversion echo "Job id: " . $client->getJobId() . "\n"; // print the total number of pages in the output document echo "Page count: " . $client->getPageCount() . "\n"; // print the size of the output in bytes echo "Output size: " . $client->getOutputSize() . "\n"; } catch(\Pdfcrowd\Error $why) { // report the error error_log("Pdfcrowd Error: {$why}\n"); // rethrow or handle the exception throw $why; } ?>