Thank you for your quick reply. So I try to rewrite code again below; $handle = popen("/usr/bin/pdftotext \"$original_name\" - -layout ",'r'); $read = fread($handle, 2048000); echo $read; pclose($handle); But I can not see anything!! Please do help me! Yui Micah Stevens wrote: > Just read the command docs, and you'll come up with something like this: > > $handle = popen("/usr/bin/pdftotext \"uploads/$filename\" - -layout ", 'r'); > $read = fread($handle, 2048000); > pclose($handle); > > $read = text content of pdf. > > -Micah > > On Saturday 17 September 2005 6:29 am, Yui Hiroaki wrote: > >>I would like to retrieve text from pdf. So I try to comand pdftotext at >>xpdf command. >> >>How can I write code? >> >>ex; >> >><?php >>$original_tmp = $_FILES['UploadedFile']['tmp_name']; >>$original_name = $_FILES['UploadedFile']['name']; >> >>$fileHandle = fopen($original_tmp, "r"); >>$uu=exec('pdftotext $original_name');//or system('pdftotext >>$original_name'); >> >>?> >> >><form method="post" action="document.php" enctype="multipart/form-data"> >><input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="512000"> >><input type="file" name="UploadedFile" style="border: 1px solid; >>width:200px; height:20px; position:absolute; left:100px; top:100px; "><br> >><input type="submit" value="upload" style="border: 1px solid; >>width:200px; height:20px; position:absolute; left:100px; top:130px; "> > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php