First, I want to say thanks for the reply! I know the question is off topic, and one could make the case that I should start a new top-level node, but I thought you might have some advice off the top of your head.

what are you parsing them for?

I was trying to extract the text, and regenerate a new PDF with page numbers. It's been a while since I tried this, and I went with a different solution, but it's been bothering me ever since. PDF::Parse seems like it will get me the pages, but after that, I can't see how to get any data from them.