way to parse pdf in pelr +read texts from presentations

hitechshiva has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

dear and respected monks !!! im shiva new entry to the world of perl. i have done a small project for linux university challenge and got selected , ihave used perl for tht proj , ahelp system(very simplified),using perl for parsing html files and giving the user required file.its a task oriented one not like man a commandoriented one. seeing this my collge libraian has gven me proj for the cd library ,ie to have a content based search tool for my cd library. i have no prob with text and html files but ,i dont know how parse pdf files and also presentations file in the ppsor director types so plz anyone help me in this with regards hitech

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Re: way to parse pdf in pelr +read texts from presentations by Joost (Canon) on Mar 26, 2005 at 19:32 UTC
just use pdftotext from foolabs. Please take some time to type vowels in your next post, it would make it a lot easier to read than this one. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re: way to parse pdf in pelr +read texts from presentations by ambs (Pilgrim) on Mar 26, 2005 at 17:59 UTC
I never tried to use them, but there is a set of modules named PDF::API2 that can be helpful. If you want a simpler thing, the pdftotext command line app can help you too. Alberto Simões	[reply]