spatie/pdf-to-text
Extract text from a pdf
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spatie/pdf-to-text
What this package is like to depend on
Last release 9 months ago
24 Nov 2025
Ships fairly regularly
a new release about every 9 months
Most releases are documented
notes for 16 of 18 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
11 years old
18 releases · first in 2015
1 release in the last 12 months
see the full history below
Release timeline
18 releases · Dec 2015 to Nov 2025Releases
latest 18-
1.55.024 Nov 2025Release notes
Open source →What's Changed
- Update issue template by @AlexVanderbist in #87
- Added Symfony 8 support to all symfony/* packages. by @thecaliskan in #89
New Contributors
- @AlexVanderbist made their first contribution in #87
- @thecaliskan made their first contribution in #89
Full Changelog: 1.54.1...1.55.0
Release notes
Open source →What's Changed
- Update issue template by @AlexVanderbist in https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/pull/87
- Added Symfony 8 support to all symfony/* packages. by @thecaliskan in https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/pull/89
New Contributors
- @AlexVanderbist made their first contribution in https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/pull/87
- @thecaliskan made their first contribution in https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/pull/89
Full Changelog: https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/compare/1.54.1...1.55.0
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1.54.113 Jun 2025Release notes
Open source →What's Changed
- fix: update style for consistency across codebase by @tanvir2sky in #82
- Added Windows support by @sertxudev in #83
New Contributors
- @tanvir2sky made their first contribution in #82
- @sertxudev made their first contribution in #83
Full Changelog: 1.54.0...1.54.1
Release notes
Open source →What's Changed
- fix: update style for consistency across codebase by @tanvir2sky in https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/pull/82
- Added Windows support by @sertxudev in https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/pull/83
New Contributors
- @tanvir2sky made their first contribution in https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/pull/82
- @sertxudev made their first contribution in https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/pull/83
Full Changelog: https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/compare/1.54.0...1.54.1
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1.54.018 Oct 2024Release notes
Open source →What's Changed
- Add Default Binary Path Detection for pdftotext in Constructor by @akr4m in https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/pull/79
New Contributors
- @akr4m made their first contribution in https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/pull/79
Full Changelog: https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/compare/1.53.0...1.54.0
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1.53.029 Aug 2024Release notes
Open source →What's Changed
- ADD setEnv to Pdf by @enricodelazzari in #78
New Contributors
- @enricodelazzari made their first contribution in #78
Full Changelog: 1.52.1...1.53.0
Release notes
Open source →What's Changed
- ADD setEnv to Pdf by @enricodelazzari in https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/pull/78
New Contributors
- @enricodelazzari made their first contribution in https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/pull/78
Full Changelog: https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/compare/1.52.1...1.53.0
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1.52.114 Dec 2023Release notes
Open source →What's Changed
New Contributors
- @angeljqv made their first contribution in #56
- @alexmanase made their first contribution in #57
- @stof made their first contribution in #76
Full Changelog: 1.52.0...1.52.1
Release notes
Open source →What's Changed
- Add support for Symfony 7 by @stof in https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/pull/76
New Contributors
- @angeljqv made their first contribution in https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/pull/56
- @alexmanase made their first contribution in https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/pull/57
- @stof made their first contribution in https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/pull/76
Full Changelog: https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/compare/1.52.0...1.52.1
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1.52.014 Jul 2022 -
1.6.014 Jul 2022Release notes
Open source →What's Changed
- Add detailed Linux distribution about Fedora-based by @peter279k in #52
- add timeout config for Symfony Process call by @jbraband in #54
New Contributors
Full Changelog: 1.51...1.6.0
Release notes
Open source →What's Changed
- Add detailed Linux distribution about Fedora-based by @peter279k in https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/pull/52
- add timeout config for Symfony Process call by @jbraband in https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/pull/54
New Contributors
- @jbraband made their first contribution in https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/pull/54
Full Changelog: https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text/compare/1.51...1.6.0
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1.5.016 Dec 2021Release notes
Open source →What's Changed
- Correct file permissions by @peter279k in #39
- Drop Support for PHP 7.3 & Add Support for PHP 8.1 by @nbayramberdiyev in #47
New Contributors
- @peter279k made their first contribution in #39
- @nbayramberdiyev made their first contribution in #47
Full Changelog: 1.4.0...1.5.0
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1.4.027 Nov 2020 -
1.3.011 Mar 2020 -
1.2.015 May 2019 -
1.1.007 Mar 2018Release notes
Open source →- allow setting pdftotext options
Symfony/processminimal requirement bumped to version 3.3
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1.0.320 Feb 2018 -
1.0.213 Nov 2017 -
1.0.116 Mar 2016Release notes
Open source →- fixed a bug where text could not be extracted from filepaths containing spaces
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1.0.031 Dec 2015 -
0.0.131 Dec 2015Nothing published for this version
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1.5101 Jan 2022Nothing published for this version