Ok, once more with feeling.

You said:

'I was hoping for a general OCR solution that I could use to pull all the text from the documents regardless of it they contained text, binary formats, or image text.'

OCR has no context with non image documents. I have previously told you that you should not be using this term in conjunction with non image documents. It has no context here.

If you are looking to code a 'general application' to achieve this goal then you have been given sufficient information to get you started, at least now you should know what you should be learning, where to look, and the pseudo code for your application. If you have any problems changing this pseudo code into functioning Perl post the code and we will try to help.

Martin