Help with extracting FlateDecode-encoded text from a PDF

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

I am totally new to encoding and decoding. I have a PDF document that I need to decode some of the content, it's in FlateDecode. How can I decode the content? Does anyone have an example of doing this? Also if anyone has any experience in inserting images into a PDF I'd love to hear from you. Thanks all for any help possible. RP

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Re: Help with extracting FlateDecode-encoded text from a PDF by swampyankee (Parson) on Dec 08, 2006 at 21:48 UTC
First suggestion: look in CPAN: there are numerous modules for dealing with PDFs. Second suggestion look in Super Search: numerous questions related to PDFs have been posted and answered in the past. ~~Third suggestion, tell everybody what "FlateDecode" is.~~third removed, as I googled it emc At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation. —Igor Sikorsky, reported in AOPA Pilot magazine February 2003.	[reply]
Re: Help with extracting FlateDecode-encoded text from a PDF by marto (Cardinal) on Dec 09, 2006 at 12:36 UTC
Hi stanleyscup, Have you checked out CAM::PDF? The documentation is pretty good and it has many helpful scripts. Hope this helps. Martin	[reply]