I did try both of those .. without success.

I got a pdf I've created with openoffice and pdftotext is able to extract text from it, whereas CAM::PDF (or File::Extract::PDF) gives me messy characters. 

[jerome@saab pdf]$ getpdftext.pl -v ~/faxTaxHabitation2005.pdf
       




 
  
                 
                      
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        + + +
...

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And pdftotext: 
[jerome@saab pdf]$ pdftotext ~/faxTaxHabitation2005.pdf txt
[jerome@saab pdf]$ tail txt

Merci de bien vouloir me confirmer ces informations par retour de fax 
+afin que je puisse proceder au paiment le plus rapidement possible au
+ numero suivant : *************

Cordiales salutations.
...

[download]

The ideal would be a perl module linked to the xpdf C code .. :)

-- Nice photos of naked perl sources here !

In reply to Re^2: extract text from pdf by jeteve
in thread extract text from pdf by jeteve

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