parseAny in CAM::PDF

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

I am using CAM::PDF to parse PDF files. I get an error in the routine 'parseAny' with the message 'unrecognized type in parseAny' and it DIES! rather than reporting an error and 'next'. Do anyone have experience/fix for this? Do I need to modify the module this sits in to solve the problem?

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Re: parseAny in CAM::PDF by Anonymous Monk on Nov 17, 2009 at 17:16 UTC
CAM-PDF Bugs #49839: Unrecognized type in parseAny: errors with %PDF-1.3 ReportLab Generated PDF document	[reply]
Re^2: parseAny in CAM::PDF by fionbarr (Friar) on Nov 17, 2009 at 17:53 UTC
I have hundreds of thousands of PDF files to pull apart...most of them work fine but when the program 'dies' I'm in big trouble...I can handle bypassing a file and reporting some problem but when the program exits it's no good. Any ideas?	[reply]
Re^3: parseAny in CAM::PDF by almut (Canon) on Nov 17, 2009 at 18:11 UTC
Maybe wrap an eval { } block around the respective call you're making to CAM::PDF?	[reply]
Re: parseAny in CAM::PDF by fionbarr (Friar) on Nov 17, 2009 at 18:42 UTC
this was an excellent idea! I think it works. THANKS! `# 11-17-2009....idea from perlmonks...trap a 'die'...it may work! eval {$doc = CAM::PDF->new($filename)}; if ($@) { print "skipping $filename because of parseAny\n"; print EXTRA "bad parseAny for $filename\n"; print SKIPPED_FILE_LIST "bad parseAny for $filename\n"; return 1; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]