PDF to CSV using PHP
The PHP SDK for extracting data from PDF documents to the CSV files.
Extract tables from textual and scanned PDF documents to comma-separated values CSV files. The PHP library identifies bordered and border-less tabular structures within pdf documents and extracts these tables to a list of CSV formatted files.
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ConvertAPI provides a PHP library that allows you to perform a PDF to CSV conversion with just a few lines of code. Convert PDF to CSV documents using PHP programming language with no effort at all!
composer require convertapi/convertapi-php
Or install it manually using ConvertApi autoloader:
require_once('/path/to/convertapi-php/lib/ConvertApi/autoload.php');
How To Convert PDF to CSV using PHP?
You can convert PDF to CSV in a few simple steps:
- Obtain your secret key by signing up for a free account.
- Install the ConvertAPI library for PHP
- Set up the PDF to CSV conversion using our live demo tool
- Copy-paste the auto-generated code snippet into your project!
PDF to CSV - complete code snippet for PHP
Once you have your authentication in place, simply copy-paste this pdf to csv conversion code snippet into your PHP project:
Upload the file and see how it works
You can set up the advanced conversion parameters and test the conversion result online using our interactive demo tool. It will auto-generate the code snippet for you!
Advanced PDF to CSV conversion parameters
Sets the password to open protected documents.
Set page range. Example 1-10 or 1,2,5.
Set fields separator.
Enable optical character recognition(OCR). Set the property to ALL to perform OCR on all pages and Scanned to perform OCR on scanned pages if PDF contains mixed pages - text and image pages.
Values: Scanned All None
Set the OCR language. Ask support to add your language if missing.
Values: ca da nl de es en he pl pt ru sv tr lt