Reading PDF metadata in PHP

Question

I\'m trying to read metadata attached to arbitrary PDFs: title, author, subject, and keywords.

Is there a PHP library, preferably open-source, that can read PDF meta

Answer 1

I was looking for the same thing today. And I came across a small PHP class over at http://de77.com/ that offers a quick and dirty solution. You can download the class directly. Output is UTF-8 encoded.

The creator says:

Here’s a PHP class I wrote which can be used to get title & author and a number of pages of any PDF file. It does not use any external application - just pure PHP.

// basic example
include 'PDFInfo.php';
$p = new PDFInfo;
$p->load('file.pdf');
echo $p->author;
echo $p->title;
echo $p->pages;

For me, it work's! All thanks goes solely to the creator of the class ... well, maybe just a little bit thanks to me too for finding the class ;)