There's a great example snippet in the POD for PDF::Extract:

 use PDF::Extract;
 $pdf = new PDF::Extract( PDFDoc=>'C:/my.pdf' );
 $pdf->getPDFExtract( PDFPages=>$PDFPages );
 print "Content-Type text/plain\n\n<xmp>",  $pdf->getVars("PDFExtract"
+);
 print $pdf->getVars("PDFError");
 
# or 
 
# Extract and save, in the current directory,  all the pages in a pdf 
+document
use PDF::Extract;
$pdf=new PDF::Extract( PDFDoc=>"test.pdf");
$i=1;
$i++ while ( $pdf->savePDFExtract( PDFPages=>$i ) );
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Update to provide more thorough information:

The POD also discusses the following:

With PDF::Extract a new PDF document can be:-

• assigned to a scalar variable with getPDFExtract.
• saved to disk with savePDFExtract.
• printed to STDOUT as a PDF web document with servePDFExtract.
• cached and served for a faster PDF web document service with fastServePDFExtract.

So I guess the short answer is that yes, this is an appropriate tool for the job. The example under the heading servePDFExtract shows how to output to STDOUT with the correct header for a PDF document served on the web.

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