I am a novice perl user. I'm confused. I've downloaded CAM-PDF-1.52 and Crypt-RC4-2.02. I still get the noted error message about ThateDecode. So I downloaded Text-PDF-0.29 which has a dependency for IO-Compress-2.027. I downloaded the dependencies for IO-Compress-2.027 as well. I still get the error. This is a huge brick wall for me and I'd appreciate any help in climbing over it. The perl script that I downloaded to read the text of the PDF is: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use CAM::PDF; # Name of the Perl Module use CAM::PDF::Content; # Name of the Perl Module my $file_name = shift; my @lines; my $pdf = CAM::PDF->new($file_name); for my $page (1 .. $pdf->numPages()) { my $text = $pdf->getPageText($page); @lines = split (/\n/, $text); foreach (@lines) { print "$_\n"; } } Currently Compress::Zlib is uninstalled. Thanks, Jim