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

Hi,
I'm trying to extract text data from the following file

http://www.bluecatnetworks.com/download_files/careers/QA_Software_Automation_Developer.pdf
( the file is stored locally )
The script as follows 
use CAM::PDF;
my $filename = 'QA_Software_Automation_Developer.pdf';
my $pdf = CAM::PDF->new($filename);
my $pagenos = $pdf->numPages();
for (my $i=1;$i<=$pagenos;$i++) {
$page_text .= ' '. $pdf->getPageText($i);
}
print "page :: $page_text\n";

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I'm Getting the following error, 
Can't call method "numPages" on an undefined value at readpdf.pl line

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Is there any other CPAN module to parse this kind of PDFs
Thanks
Jey

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Re: CAM::PDF Not extracting
by marto (Cardinal) on Sep 01, 2009 at 09:33 UTC

    You don't seem to be checking for errors when opening the PDF:

    my $pdf = CAM::PDF->new($filename) || die "$CAM::PDF::errstr\n";

    CAM::PDF comes with various scripts including getpdftext, try running that against your PDF.

    Martin

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      my $pdf = CAM::PDF->new($filename) || die "$CAM::PDF::errstr\n";
      I tried the above syntax and got the error message as follows 
      Incorrect password(s).  The document cannot be decrypted.

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      But this file does't seem to be password protected.
      Thanks
      Jey
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Re: CAM::PDF Not extracting
by derby (Abbot) on Sep 01, 2009 at 13:02 UTC

    You can check out the pdfinfo.pl script that is part of CAM::PDF for how to handle passwords ('cuz obviously CAM::PDF thinks it's password protected). I prefer to shell out and use the pdinfo binary that's part of xpdf. xpdf has been more reliable for me than CAM::PDF (which, unless recently updated, does not handle the latest versions of PDF).

    -derby
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Re: CAM::PDF Not extracting
by leocharre (Priest) on Sep 01, 2009 at 14:07 UTC
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