[UPHPU] display PDFs in browser without plugin

Victor Villa vvilla at gmail.com
Mon Aug 9 21:22:18 MDT 2010


On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Wade Preston Shearer <
wadeshearer.lists at me.com> wrote:

> I have a client asking for a web app that displays PDFs in the browser
> without use of the Adobe Plug-in. Any options available besides Google
> Viewer (I'm not against using Google Viewer, I'm simple exploring my
> options)?


i would imagine this only works if the PDF contains REAL text and not an
image of text.

http://davidwalsh.name/read-pdf-doc-file-php

if image of text, ask Mac Newbold about PHP and OCR, its seems like he was
telling me a project where he had to do OCR for a site in PHP

mj/v


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