How to extract (regex) data from pdf, word, excel files

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

Sir,

Can anyone let me know how to read and extract (REGEX) information from the contents of
1. pdf file
2. word file
3. excel file

Thanks

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Re: How to extract (regex) data from pdf, word, excel files by kennethk (Abbot) on Feb 05, 2009 at 17:51 UTC
Use modules from CPAN for accessing pdf, word and excel files.	[reply]
Re: How to extract (regex) data from pdf, word, excel files by eff_i_g (Curate) on Feb 05, 2009 at 18:20 UTC
I like Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. For Word, I believe your only options are OLE, or saving the document into another format and parsing that.	[reply]
Re: How to extract (regex) data from pdf, word, excel files by Anonymous Monk on Feb 06, 2009 at 09:32 UTC
All, Thanks for the help. Regards	[reply]