如何阅读上传到Google云端硬盘的PDF文件的内容？

Question

I want to read the content of the PDF file which is uploaded into google drive. The content should be in a human readable format, not in binary format. Right now I'm using google drive API to read the content but unable to do that.

 $fileId = $request['thesis_google_id'];
    $response = $service->files->get($fileId,   array(
    'alt' => 'media'));
    $content = $response->getBody()->read(2024);

Answer 1

The core functionality of the Google Drive API is to download and upload files in Google Drive. This API does not give you the ability to read anything it just stores the files for you and allows you to download them.

The Google Docs api does give you access to read and write files but i suspect it only supports google docs format files not PDF.

You will need to download the file locally then use some form of PDF reader for PHP to read it.