This looks really easy. I have Perl 5.005 and loaded
PDF::Parse on a Solaris 2.8 box.

Tried the sample program:

./pagedump.ipl AN2383.pdf
Bad object reference '>' at ./pagedump.ipl line 105
Bad object reference '>' at ./pagedump.ipl line 105
Bad object reference '>' at ./pagedump.ipl line 105
Bad object reference '>' at ./pagedump.ipl line 109
While loading pages got object of type '' at ./pagedump.ipl line 109
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Tried my own program:

use PDF;
$filename=shift;
my $PDFfile = PDF->new ($filename);
$key="Author";
$info = $PDFfile->GetInfo ($key);
print "got author $info \n";
print "num pages ", $PDFfile->Pages,"\n";
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I get:

./pdf.ipl AN2383.pdf
Bad object reference '>' at ./pdf.ipl line 7
Bad object reference '>' at ./pdf.ipl line 7
Bad object reference '>' at ./pdf.ipl line 7
1.3
got author 
num pages
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So I get the bad object, get the version but no Author, Keywords, etc, I checked the file & there are keywords, authors, etc.

Tips/Pointers/RTFMs appreciated

Andy

Updated Steve_p - Updated title and added code tags (and fixed my "Updated" line) doh!