Re^2: How toread the contents of PDF

Probably, the best thing is to go to CPAN and search for pdf there.

Unfortunately, nothing capable of extracting text from a PDF file (at least from what I can see from the POD docs) can be found until the 27th page of the CPAN search. Searching CPAN can sometimes be an enormous waste of time, and asking here can save a lot of time and hassle.

UPDATE: I will acknowledge that PDF::API2 can stringify a PDF, but personal experience (something which is not found on search.cpan.org, and easily found here on perlmonks) has been that it does not work as expected all the time. There are also several other misleading modules like PDF::Parse and PDF::Extract. My main point being that sometimes it can save you a whole lot of time to just ask :)

-stvn

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Re^3: How toread the contents of PDF by marto (Cardinal) on Oct 18, 2006 at 17:26 UTC
Did you look at CAM::PDF? Martin	[reply]
Re^4: How toread the contents of PDF by stvn (Monsignor) on Oct 18, 2006 at 19:36 UTC
CAM::PDF was the module I was referring to on the 27th page. I also recomended it in my response to the OP below. -stvn	[reply]
Re^5: How toread the contents of PDF by marto (Cardinal) on Oct 18, 2006 at 21:16 UTC
Hi, Sorry, since you did not specify in the post I replied to that CAM::PDF was the module in question on that page, I pointed it out. At the time of posting I had not seen your other post in this thread. I do agree with your point however, that sometimes it is better to ask :) Martin	[reply]