Simple PHP wrapper to the pdfinfo unix tool.
Inspired by http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14644353/get-the-number-of-pages-in-a-pdf-document/14644354
pdfinfo is an unix tool helping extract information from pdf files.
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/pdfinfo1.html
You can get page count, title, author..etc via the tool.
First you need to have pdfinfo in your system.
For ubuntu, there's an easy way for doing this:
sudo apt-get install poppler-utils
You can just download the file to your project, or install it via composer:
composer require "howtomakeaturn/pdfinfo:1.*"
Just pass the path to the pdf file to the constructor, and you can get metadata from its properties immediately:
$pdf = new PDFInfo('path/to/the/pdf');
echo $pdf->title; // Get the title
echo $pdf->pages; // Get the number of pagesThis library throws 4 kind of exceptions to represent the official exit codes.
- OpenPDFException
- OpenOutputException
- PDFPermissionException
- OtherException
Check the official documentation for more information.
Currently this library supports the following metadata:
- title
- author
- creator
- producer
- creationDate
- modDate
- tagged
- form
- pages
- encrypted
- pageSize
- fileSize
- optimized
- PDFVersion
- pageRot