Re: How to parse PDF

The simple answer is you have to try it.

Pipe your pdf through the pdftotext tool (on Ubuntu in the poppler-utils package), and see if the output is parsable. That doesn't take very long, you can test it literally in two minutes.

Take a look at PDF::Parse and PDF and see if they help you.

But in principle it is much easier to validate the data before it is put into a PDF - have you tried to ask the external vendor if he could provide the same data in a format that is easier accessible?

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Re^2: How to parse PDF by Anonymous Monk on Feb 13, 2009 at 07:35 UTC
Excellent utility, especially when using the -layout command. Well done!	[reply]
Re^2: How to parse PDF by Anonymous Monk on Jan 20, 2012 at 19:41 UTC
Great tip on pdftotext, thank you!	[reply]