Convert PDF file to other formats

Convert PDF to EPUB

EPUB (short for electronic publication) is a free and open e-book standard from the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Files have the extension .epub.EPUB is designed for reflowable content, meaning that an EPUB reader can optimize text for a particular display device. EPUB also supports fixed-layout content. The format is intended as a single format that publishers and conversion houses can use in-house, as well as for distribution and sale. It supersedes the Open eBook standard.

Aspose.PDF for PHP supports the feature to convert PDF documents to EPUB format. Aspose.PDF for PHP has a class named EpubSaveOptions which can be used as the second argument to the Document.save(..) method, to generate an EPUB file. Please try using the following code snippet to accomplish this requirement.

// Create a new instance of the Document class and load the input PDF file
$document = new Document($inputFile);

// Create a new instance of the EpubSaveOptions class
$saveOption = new EpubSaveOptions();

// Save the document as EPUB format using the specified save options
$document->save($outputFile, $saveOption);

Convert PDF to LaTeX/TeX

Aspose.PDF for PHP support converting PDF to LaTeX/TeX. The LaTeX file format is a text file format with the special markup and used in TeX-based document preparation system for high-quality typesetting.

To convert PDF files to TeX, Aspose.PDF has the class LaTeXSaveOptions which provides the method setOutDirectoryPath for saving temporary images during the conversion process.

The following code snippet shows the process of converting PDF files into the TEX format with Java.

// Create a new Document object and load the input PDF file
$document = new Document($inputFile);

// Create a new LaTeXSaveOptions object
$saveOption = new LaTeXSaveOptions();
$saveOption->setOutDirectoryPath ($pathToOutputDirectory)

// Save the document as LaTeX
$document->save($outputFile, $saveOption);

Convert PDF to Text

Aspose.PDF for PHP support converting whole PDF document and single page to a Text file.

Convert whole PDF document to Text file

You can convert PDF document to TXT file using Visit method of TextAbsorber class.

The following code snippet explains how to extract the texts from the all pages.

// Load the PDF document
$document = new Document($inputFile);

// Create a TextAbsorber object to extract text from the document
$textAbsorber = new TextAbsorber();

// Extract the text from the document
$textAbsorber->visit($document);
$content = $textAbsorber->getText();

// Save the extracted text to the output file
file_put_contents($outputFile, $content);

// Get the file size of the output file
$fileSize = filesize($outputFile);

Convert PDF page to text file

You can convert PDF document to TXT file with Aspose.PDF for PHP. You should use Visit method of TextAbsorber class for resolve this task.

The following code snippet explains how to extract the texts from the particular pages.

// Load the PDF document
$document = new Document($inputFile);

// Create a TextAbsorber object to extract text from the document
$textAbsorber = new TextAbsorber();

$array = array(1, 3, 4);

foreach ($array as $page) {
    $textAbsorber->visit($document->getPages()->get_Item($page));
    $content = $textAbsorber->getText();
    
    $outputFile = $dataDir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'result-pdf-to-text'. $page . '.txt';
    // Save the extracted text to the output file
    file_put_contents($outputFile, $content);
}

Convert PDF to XPS

Aspose.PDF for PHP gives a possibility to convert PDF files to XPS format. Let try to use the presented code snippet for converting PDF files to XPS format with Java.

The XPS file type is primarily associated with the XML Paper Specification by Microsoft Corporation. The XML Paper Specification (XPS), formerly codenamed Metro and subsuming the Next Generation Print Path (NGPP) marketing concept, is Microsoft’s initiative to integrate document creation and viewing into the Windows operating system.

To convert PDF files to XPS, Aspose.PDF has the class XpsSaveOptions class that is used as the second argument to the Document.save(..) constructor to generate the XPS file. The following code snippet shows the process of converting PDF files into XPS format.

// Create a new Document object and load the input PDF file
$document = new Document($inputFile);

// Create a new XpsSaveOptions object
$saveOption = new XpsSaveOptions();

// Save the document as XPS using the specified save options
$document->save($outputFile, $saveOption);
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