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nathan enns
Joined: Mar 13, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Apr-14 01:53
I have a client who needs an account management program written. A requirement is that the program needs to read PDF files from another website on a different server. I have been doing research but cannot figure out if PHP can read and use data from PDF files. Can anyone shed some light on this issue?
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langard
Joined: Dec 15, 1999
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Posted: 2004-Apr-19 00:55
If you need to actually read the .PDF files and convert them to browser-viewable HTML documents there is an open source PDF2HTML class that may help you - available @ phpclasses.org, but it has problems with converting/displaying elaborate graphics. The best web presentation solution though is probably to convert the .PDF to .XML documents to make them cross-platform compatible. From there they can be converted to HTML, Word, Excel, etc, depending upon your needs.
If you only need to make them downloadable - that is viewable to anyone with Acrobat Reader installed on their machine - why not just leave them in .PDF format and reference them to the other server?
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nathan enns
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Posted: 2004-Apr-19 08:14
Thank you for your reply and help. I would do what you suggested except she needs the data taken and manipulated in many different ways. It has to get into a MySQL database.
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g1smd
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Posted: 2004-Apr-20 19:46
You should really get the other site to set up some sort of datafeed for you to import, such as RSS or RDF.
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