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Re^2: How to invoke pdftotext and extract first line of text from PDF file?

by brycen (Monk)
on Mar 29, 2010 at 05:21 UTC ( [id://831558]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: How to invoke pdftotext and extract first line of text from PDF file?
in thread How to invoke pdftotext and extract first line of text from PDF file?

You can use backticks also: 
$text = `$Globals::pdftotext_bin -layout $pdffile -`;
if ($?) {
  log_error(...)
}

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