Extract text from PDF files

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Re: Extract text from PDF files by Anonymous Monk on Apr 03, 2004 at 04:17 UTC
hai use CPAN module, PDF::Extract	[reply]
Re^2: Extract text from PDF files by Anonymous Monk on Oct 26, 2004 at 16:42 UTC
I looked at the homepage for that module & it says "PDF::Extract works on the file structure of a PDF document not the content. There are plenty of PDF modules that can do that." Nothing in the module seems to grab the text for parsing it. I also couldn't find any modules to which the quote alludes that performs that task. If you've been able to do this, I'd be grateful if you could send a code snippet showing how it works.	[reply]