Extract text from an epub

This package provides a class to extract text from an epub.

 \jove4015\epub2txt\Epub::getText('book.epub'); //returns the text from the epub

Requirements

Behind the scenes this package leverages epub2txt. You can verify if the binary installed on your system by issueing this command:

which epub2txt

If it is installed it will return the path to the binary.

To install the binary you can follow the instructions here: (http://kevinboone.net/README_epub2txt.html)

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

$ composer require jove4015/epub-to-text

Usage

Extracting text from an epub is easy.

$text = (new Epub())
    ->setepub('book.epub')
    ->text();

Or easier:

 \jove4015\EpubToText\Epub::getText('book.epub')

By default the package will assume that the epub2txt is located at /usr/bin/epub2txt. If you're using the a different location pass the path to the binary in constructor

$text = (new Epub('/custom/path/to/epub2txt'))
    ->setepub('book.epub')
    ->text();

or as the second parameter to the getText-function:

 \jove4015\EpubToText\Epub::getText('book.epub', '/custom/path/to/epub2txt')

Testing

$ composer test

Credits

• Freek Van der Herten - Wrote the original pdf-to-text package on which this is based
• Kevin Boone - Wrote the epub2txt CLI utility

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.