Howdy bros. I'm trying to write a script that will open a pdf document and save it as a text file. Apparently, the Acrobat API has no method for "save as" (WTF!).

So I'm wondering if there is some way to use OLE to click the appropriate item on the menu. In other words is there something I can do in the indicated spot here: 

use strict;
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const "Acrobat";
my $acrobat = Win32::OLE->new("AcroExch.App", "Quit");
my $avdoc = Win32::OLE->new("AcroExch.AVDoc");
$avdoc->Open( "foo.pdf" );
# Open and operate the Save As... dialog?
$avdoc->Close();

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TIA...Steve

UPDATE Alas, the solution offered below by angiehope, while it works, produces a print image of the page. That is not the same as what you get with Save As on the Acrobat menu, which isolates the text of the document from metadata, sidebar content, etc., and represents paragraphs a distinct strings. So if anyone has an idea how to solve this, I could still use it.

In reply to Win32::OLE Access Acrobat file menu? by cormanaz

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