in reply to Re^4: GUI automation with Gtk
in thread GUI automation with Gtk

> But as an aside: Is there any other way to extract the text from a pdf apart from using Acrobats "save as text" feature?

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

BTW: CPAN is full of GTK moduls, did you search?

And this review of Aristoteles Pagaltzis seems helpful.

Cheers Rolf