PERL Beginners - Re: PDF to Text

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Re: PDF to Text

Jeff Pang

2007-07-13, 9:58 pm

--- Mike Lesser <exceptions@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hi all. Like it says, I need to extract the content
> of a PDF file.
>
> I installed the tool pdftotext, and it works fine
> for my needs. I
> recall there was a very simple module that used this
> to extract text,
> but for the life of me, I can't find it on CPAN! Any
> leads? Using a
> command-line script in my own code makes me feel
> icky, but I guess
> I'll deal...
>

I found this source,is it suitable for you?
http://search.cpan.org/search?query...ct+pdf&mode=all

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Mr. Shawn H. Corey

2007-07-14, 7:58 am

Jeff Pang wrote:
> --- Mike Lesser <exceptions@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
> I found this source,is it suitable for you?
> http://search.cpan.org/search?query...ct+pdf&mode=all

Well, PDF::API2 is capable of reading and creating PDFs. The problem is
that the contents of a PDF is a description on how to write a document,
not just text. The contents are like a programming language with the
text as strings inside it. I know of no module that parses this
language so you can extract the text from it.

WARNING: PDF::API2 is huge.

CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/~areibens/PD...lib/PDF/API2.pm
SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfapi2
mailing list: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/...xt-pdf-modules/

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