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Does anyone know any package that can help me?
You can try to use some package like this one.
https://packagist.org/packages/grofgraf/laravel-pdf-merger
But if your PDF files is protected against modification, I don't know any free API to merge them. For those files you need to break the protection.
This API propose a code to break the protection, but only if you are authorized to modify a PDF file (you have to be the owner of the PDF file).
Hello.
First of all thank you for your answer.
I use this package but i get the following error message when i try to merge my files:
fopen(C:\Users\User\Source\project\storage\tmp/4hN11SZYqdHrpdsm.pdf): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory
I think it can't find the merged pdf in storage\tmp folder because i get the error in merge(). Bellow is my code:
$mergedInvoiceLieferscheinPDF = \PDFMerger::init(); foreach($documents as $document) { $mergedInvoiceLieferscheinPDF->addPathToPDF(base_path($document), 'all', 'P'); $mergedInvoiceLieferscheinPDF->merge(); $mergedInvoiceLieferscheinPDF->save(base_path('/storage/tmp/merged_result.pdf')); }
@AggelosGalatis Have you checked in the directory if the file exists ? The error message says that the 4hN11SZYqdHrpdsm.pdf file does not exist, if it does not exist, you can't merge it.
@vincent15000 Yes, my pdf files there are in the /storage/app/ folder. But i don't have any pdf file with this name. Also i notice that the error happens when it tries to execute the merge function.
@AggelosGalatis Are your pdf files in the storage/app folder or in the storage\tmp folder ?
@vincent15000 At /storage/app
@AggelosGalatis The error message show that your code tries to open a file in the tmp folder and not in the app folder.
@vincent15000 So my pdf files have to be in the /storage/tmp folder in order to merge them?
@AggelosGalatis Not at all ... what I try to tell you is that your code tries to open a file in the tmp folder and you tell me that your pdf files are in the app folder. So why are you trying to open a pdf file from the tmp folder if your pdf files are in the app folder ? It has no sense ... ;).
@vincent15000 I think it can't find the file because when i run the following command i get a different name for my pdf files.
$mergedPDF->addPathToPDF(base_path($document), 'all', 'P');
@vincent15000 I used the same code for a pdf with version 1.4 and it worked. But for pdf above 1.4 it doesn't work. Maybe the problem is when it tries to convert the pdf file. I already installed ghostscript.
@AggelosGalatis I think you should perhaps ask setasign ;).
I found the problem. When i was trying to downgrade the PDF file, the new PDF file it was in a different folder, so the problem was the path, that's why the merge command couldn't find the file in tmp folder.
@AggelosGalatis That's what I tried to tell you, clearly the error message informs about that.
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