Reading PDF file with php

Question

I have been using codeigniter framework. It was going very with everything except that I can't read my pdf files. When I do try reading, It downloads or saves it instead. I have tried a lot of solutions but didn't work.

Controller

public function read($name)
{

    $url = base_url().'uploads/'.$name;
    header('Content-type: application/pdf');
    header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="'.$name.'"');
    header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
    header('Accept-Ranges: bytes');
     @readfile($url);

}

set the `Content-Length` too : `header('Content-Length:' . filesize($url));` — Edwin, Jul 20 '17 at 07:35

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 20 '17 at 07:25

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How can you read a pdf file? If by read you mean to read characters in the pdf file then you need an OCR library to do the same. You can find different libraries like:

http://www.fpdf.org/

answered Jul 20 '17 at 07:25

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and how do you implement this library? – courage Jul 20 '17 at 07:27
You can start with: AddPage(); $pdf->SetFont('Arial','B',16); $pdf->Cell(40,10,'Hello World!'); $pdf->Output(); ?> – informer Jul 20 '17 at 07:29
There are examples present on the site :) – informer Jul 20 '17 at 07:29

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 20 '17 at 10:35

checkout: How to force files to open in browser instead of download (pdf)?

also if this doesn't help you try using a library like mpdf or dompdf they have good documentation on how to export files to browser or to save it etc

https://github.com/mpdf/mpdf

Reading PDF file with php

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