Hi pat_mc,

If I was you I would try CAM::PDF using the getpdftext.pl as a starting point. I have had great success, however recently a couple of problematic PDFs were made available for me for testing using this method, and I had problems. Since this was the first time extracting text from PDFs using the method had given me problems, I still suggest at least trying CAM::PDF.

If the PDFs in question are made up of images (I have seen PDFs were each page is actually an embedded TIFF resulting from a scanning process) you will need to OCR each page, see Re: parse content of PDF file for further details.

You may want to read Extracting text from PDF. No really on this subject. Also remember super search is your friend, this question seems to be asked frequently.

Hope this helps

Martin

In reply to Re: Extracting content text from PDFs by marto
in thread Extracting content text from PDFs by pat_mc

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