I want to capture the output of the following system() call into a variable:


use strict;
use warnings;

my $p2tExe = '/Desktop/p2t';
my $PathDocumentUnicode = "test.pdf";
my $converted_text= "";
eval { $converted_text   = `/Desktop/p2t -nodiag -layout -enc UTF-8 $P
+athDocumentUnicode -` };
print $converted_text;

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p2t is the executable of the fantastic pdftotext (XpdfReader) suite. I read that system() doesn't return the output, just the exit status, and that I should use Backticks. However the following does not work (Can't exec "/Desktop/p2t": No such file or directory at pdftotext.pl line 9.):

eval { $converted_text   = `$p2tExe, "-nodiag", "-layout", "-enc", "UT
+F-8", "$PathDocumentUnicode", "-"` };

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In reply to use of Backticks to catch console output by Takamoto

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