Re: How to invoke pdftotext and extract first line of text from PDF file?

in reply to How to invoke pdftotext and extract first line of text from PDF file?

That's what I did:

  open ( my $fh, "-|","pdftotext -layout $file -") or
    die "error extracting $file";
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But I really recommend using pdftohtml -xml -stdout instead if you need more reliability about text position, page-number and font (-family, -size and -color) used.

Cheers Rolf

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Re^2: How to invoke pdftotext and extract first line of text from PDF file? by brycen (Monk) on Mar 29, 2010 at 05:21 UTC
You can use backticks also: $text = `$Globals::pdftotext_bin -layout $pdffile -`; if ($?) { log_error(...) } [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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