PHP cannot natively open and display a PDF file to the browser. In most cases you want to just send the file to the browser and allow the Adobe Reader to open and display the file. However, if you are looking to pull data out of the PDF itself, then the PDF function built-into PHP may be of some help.
Last edited by davefranco; 12-03-2015 at 12:19 PM..
Most PHP PDF libraries that I have found center around creating PDF documents, but is there a simple way to render a document to an image format suitable for web use?
In PHP language, it can not open directly PDF file to the browser. You need to send your PDF file to browser and allow the adobe reader to open that PDF file.
If you want to pull data in PDF file by itself, then you need to use PDF function.
For creating your own new pdf file there is a library named FPDF library of php. you can use it to generate any kind of text images containing PDF and then view it and it can also provide you facility of downloading that document in pdf formate and printing that document. Use this library it is the best one.
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