title: How to extract text from the PDF document?
body: <p>How to extract text from the PDF document <em>using PHP</em>?</p>
  
  <p>(I can't use other tools, I don't have root access)</p>
  
  <p>I've found some functions working for plain text, but they don't handle well Unicode characters:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.hashbangcode.com/blog/zend-lucene-and-pdf-documents-part-2-pdf-data-extraction-437.html" rel="noreferrer">http://www.hashbangcode.com/blog/zend-lucene-and-pdf-documents-part-2-pdf-data-extraction-437.html</a></p>