Probably, the best thing is to go to CPAN and search for pdf there.

Unfortunately, nothing capable of extracting text from a PDF file (at least from what I can see from the POD docs) can be found until the 27th page of the CPAN search. Searching CPAN can sometimes be an enormous waste of time, and asking here can save a lot of time and hassle.

UPDATE: I will acknowledge that PDF::API2 can stringify a PDF, but personal experience (something which is not found on search.cpan.org, and easily found here on perlmonks) has been that it does not work as expected all the time. There are also several other misleading modules like PDF::Parse and PDF::Extract. My main point being that sometimes it can save you a whole lot of time to just ask :)

-stvn

In reply to Re^2: How toread the contents of PDF by stvn
in thread How toread the contents of PDF by arunmep

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