#printf("hi, this is perl pdf_extractor1.\n"); $filename1 = $ARGV[0]; #printf("hi, this is FILENAME $filename1.\n"); $filename1 =~ s/\.pdf|\.PDF/\.txt/; #printf("1, this is FILENAME $filename1.\n"); system("./xpdf-2.01/xpdf/pdftotext -raw $ARGV[0]"); #### yao@ubuntu:~/perl$ xpdf-2.01/xpdf/pdftotext 1.pdf bash: xpdf-2.01/xpdf/pdftotext: Permission denied yao@ubuntu:~/perl$ xpdf-2.01/xpdf/pdftotext 2.pdf bash: xpdf-2.01/xpdf/pdftotext: Permission denied yao@ubuntu:~/perl$ cd xpdf-2.01 yao@ubuntu:~/perl/xpdf-2.01$ cd xpdf yao@ubuntu:~/perl/xpdf-2.01/xpdf$ pdftotext /home/yao/perl/1.pdf