Laziness, CAD::Drawing and text extraction

thoglette has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

As part of a cataloguing operation I was looking for a mechanism to extract (title block) text from .dwg files and found CAD::Drawing. It seems to provide the bones to do the task.

So, following good Perl practice I'll be lazy and ask if any monks have used CAD::Drawing successfully for this task and know of any traps-for-new-players that should be avoided.

Thanks.

Butlerian Jihad now!

Updates

Yes, I read the PoD. And am attempting to read source/debug to work out if/how to do what I want.
Yup, this is back burner stuff, and I'm still struggling to get it installed (for some reason cannae download directly from cpan directly, and am playing patch pony). And I've yet to find a ppm for my platform (Win32)
2004.03.02 Came back to the problem and found some comments from the author at DBforums

Comment on Laziness, CAD::Drawing and text extraction - been there?

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Re: Laziness, CAD::Drawing and text extraction - been there? by Anonymous Monk on Feb 02, 2004 at 06:53 UTC
Good perl practice? I'm afraid not. Being lazy means you don't re-inventing CAD::Drawing, you just using it. The trap you seem to have stumbled upon is the basic documentation trap, you cannot avoid RTFM.	[reply]