How to get the first two pages of a pdf document using PHP

Question

How to get the first two pages of a pdf document using PHP?

Thanks!

Don

Answer 1

To read from PDF files, you will need to install the XPDF package.

When you have XPDF/pdftotext installed, you run the following PHP statement to get the PDF text:

$content = shell_exec('/usr/local/bin/pdftotext '.$filename.' -');

You can download XPDF from http://foolabs.com/xpdf/