Dear Monks,

I need to take PDF file description and validate it. I tried this,

    use strict;
    use warnings;
    use PDF;
    
    my $pdf = PDF->new("0001.pdf");
    my $version = $pdf->Version;
    my $title = $pdf->GetInfo("Title");
    my $author = $pdf->GetInfo("Author");
    print "$version\n$title\n$author\n";
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Some of the PDF files, it works fine. For many PDF files it throws an error as:

     
Premature end of file reached at valid.pl line 5

Bad object reference '' at valid.pl line 5
Bad object reference '' at valid.pl line 5
Bad object reference '' at valid.pl line 5
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at valid.pl 
+line 9.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at valid.pl 
+line 9.
1.6
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I don't know why this is happening and how to rectify this. Can any one help me.

Thanks in advance.

Punitha

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