[vox-tech] Getting document name from inside a PDF

Ryan vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Sun, 13 Apr 2003 22:47:57 -0700


maybe this link will help you out?
http://si.php.net:8888/manual/en/function.pdf-open-file.php



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Kendrick" <nbs@sonic.net>
To: <vox-tech@lists.lugod.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 10:39 PM
Subject: [vox-tech] Getting document name from inside a PDF


> 
> Do PDFs somehow store a 'document name' inside them?
> 
> What I've got is a list of *.pdf files with really lame names with lots
> of acronyms and abbreviations.
> 
> 
> Google.com seems to be able to get human-readable names out of PDF
> files.
> 
> Some random "xyz.pdf" might be listed as:
> 
>   [PDF] This is the title
>   File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
>   ... here's a quote from within the PDF ...
>   www.somesite.com/xyz.pdf - Similar pages
> 
> 
> Is there a simple tool to do this?  (I'm especially curious if there's
> a way to do this directly within PHP, as it's a PHP script that
> needs to show this stuff.)
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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