use strict;
use warnings;
my $i = 0;
my $pageNum = 1;
open my $fh, "pdftotext -layout multipage.pdf - |" or die $!;
print "---------- Begin Page $pageNum ----------\n";
while ( my $line = <$fh> ) {
if ( $line =~ /\xC/ ) {
print "\n---------- End Page $pageNum ----------\n";
$pageNum++;
print "---------- Begin Page $pageNum ----------\n";
}
$i++;
print "\n<div class=\"line\"><div>$i</div>$line</div>";
}
close $fh;
Another option which may serve you is using CAM::PDF:
use strict;
use warnings;
use CAM::PDF;
my $pdf = CAM::PDF->new('multipage.pdf');
for my $pageNumber ( 1 .. $pdf->numPages() ) {
my $pageText = $pdf->getPageText($pageNumber);
my @certainLines = ( split /\n/, $pageText )[ 9 .. 14 ];
print "---------- Lines 10 - 15 on Page $pageNumber ----------\n";
print +( join "\n", @certainLines ) . "\n";
print "---------- End Page $pageNumber ----------\n";
}
The above shows how to grab a range of text lines from the converted pdf page. You may find, however, that pdftotext does a better rendering job.
Hope this helps! |