Take a look at http://search.cpan.org/~antro/PDF-111/examples/pagedump.pl. It's in the PDF distribution. I've never used it, but it says it can parse "all possible data occuring in a PDF".

Some other options could be:

• PDF::Parse (though it doesn't look like it'll get your everywhere you want to go)
• pdf2text (there's a number of versions). You might have to convert it to parse it.
• The PDF format isn't that hard to parse. I mean, if PDF::API2 can build a PDF without very much convolution (outside of Unicode and fonts), one should be able to parse it relatively easily, I would think ...

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