smalot/pdfparser
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PdfParser, a standalone PHP library, provides various tools to extract data from a PDF file. observed · 2026-09-29
Health v2 · maintenance only
85/100
- Activity 96
- Release rhythm 61
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 62
- age_days: 4799
- days_rel: 182
- days_push: 25
- n_releases_24m: 6
Adoption not part of the score
2731 stars · 579 forks observed · 2026-09-29
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A standalone PHP library for parsing PDF files and extracting data such as text, metadata, and page content. It supports compressed PDFs and various text encodings, installed via Composer.
Use cases
- extract text from pdf files in php
- parse pdf metadata like author and description
- read pdf content page by page
- index pdf documents for search
- convert pdf documents to plain text
When to choose
- you need a pure-PHP PDF text extractor with no external binaries
- you want to pull metadata and ordered page text from PDFs
- your project is PHP 7.1+ and uses Composer
When to avoid
- you need to extract form data or parse secured/encrypted PDFs
- you need active feature development or guaranteed PR turnaround
- you need PDF generation or rendering, not parsing
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
parser pdf nlp pdf files php cross-platform pdf-text-extraction metadata-extraction composer-package standalone-library natural-language-processing
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/smalot/pdfparser · fetched 2026-09-29 · 6f173b51b873
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| smalot/pdfparser | main | 85 |
For agents
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