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title: "Parsel: Parse PDFs, Office Documents, and Images in PHP"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/parsel-parse-pdfs-office-documents-and-images-in-php-8qrk6y17h
source_url: https://laravel-news.com/parsel-parse-pdfs-office-documents-and-images-in-php
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source: "Laravel News"
published: 2026-06-02T07:57:55.652Z
updated: 2026-08-24T07:05:24.554Z
tags: ["machine-learning", "php"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 19
comments: 2
language: en
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# Parsel: Parse PDFs, Office Documents, and Images in PHP

**[Laravel News](https://daily.dev/sources/ln)** · 3 min read · 19 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Parsel is a PHP 8.4 package that wraps the liteparse `lit` CLI to extract text, structured data, and screenshots from PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and images — all locally without sending files to external services. It provides a fluent API with features like page selection, lazy streaming for large files, OCR support via Tesseract, password-protected file handling, DPI control, and a fake runner for testing without the binary. Install via Composer and use `vendor/bin/parsel-install-lit` to set up the underlying binary.

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**@devdavidt** · 1 upvotes

> Thanks a lot this is very useful.

**@ax\_prashant** · 0 upvotes

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