How can the contents of a url with a pdf extension be converted to text for parsing in PHP without downloading?

Converting directly from a URL is not practical and would be very slow .. most convertion are done via command line and not directly with PHP for fast and better result.

I found some source code that took the contents of file_get_contents('url. Pdf') and did a rough conversion (and I mean very rough).

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