Hello there monks.

I've been googling, cpanning, perlmonking, lookin' all around for information. I have an PDF file and it would be very nice to extract information, make some HTMLs out of it, the works.

But I haven't been able to find squat. There's PDF-111, but PDF::Core I don't understand, and PDF::Parse doesn't seem to do much but to give me the number of pages of the PDF and things like that

I'm thinking Adobe, Dmitry Skylarov (sp?), is that why no one wants to mess with PDF? Found a lot of tools to convert TO this format, but almost none to convert FROM.

Any ideas? Should I commit myself to the police, under the DMCA? :-)


Mondongo

In reply to Reading PDF (taboo?) by Mondongo

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