BrowserUK's idea would probably suffice. Another way would be to set the INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR variable ($/) to "\xC", which would allow you to read one "page" at a time into $_, instead of just one text line at a time. Then you could split the page record into lines, if that's what you need:

{
  local $/ = "\x0C";      # form-feed character (^L)
  while (<>) {            # $_ contains one whole "page"
    @lines = split /\n/;  # split into lines if you need to
    ...
  }
}
# $/ is now back to its "normal" setting
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