Hi

I have searched around a lot on Perlmonks, CPAN and google for modules that will enable me to grab text out of a pdf document and then save it into a file

I found the following things

But none of these have answred my question! The two perl monks post don't actually have any resources but are just rants, flaming and peoples opinions. I thought the PDF::API2 module could solve my problems as it has a "stringify" method but this just returns the ASCII of the pdf in it's raw form! Still encoded and wierd!

I need to do this programatically as I need to extract the first 400 words of 4,500 pdf documents to create an abstract to describe the docs. If this were less docs I would copy and paste by opening each but there is no way I am doing this for 4,500 documents!

Thanks people

I hope someone can help!

M

(running on Solaris 9, SPARC etc..)

In reply to pdf -> text by heezy

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