pdf to text

arunmep has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: pdf to text by prasadbabu (Prior) on Jan 12, 2006 at 09:06 UTC
arunmep, if i understood your question correctly, this may help you. Also take a look at CAM::PDF. Your question is not clear, you frame the question such a way, it should have input, required output and the coding you tried, so that it will be easy for monks to answer exactly else you will get only answers in assumption. `use CAM::PDF; my $self = CAM::PDF::->new('test.pdf'); for (1..$self->{'PageCount'} )#total no of pages { $pages = $self->getPageText($_) ; push (@text, $pages);#push the extracted text into an array }` [download] Updated: Added ->{'PageCount'}. Thanks svenXY. Prasad	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: pdf to text by svenXY (Deacon) on Jan 12, 2006 at 10:48 UTC
Hi prasadbabu++, thanks for mentioning CAM::PDF - great! just as a side note: for me, calling ->new() does not return the number of pages, I had to do the following: Read more... (443 Bytes) Regards, svenXY	[reply] [d/l]
Re: pdf to text by jbrugger (Parson) on Jan 12, 2006 at 09:08 UTC
`man xpdf`, then `man pdftotext` You'll find: `pdftotext [options] [pdf-file [text-file]]`, you can use `` or qx ,perlfunc:system and perlfunc:exec to execute the command from within perl. then open the file and read it. `open (FILE, "yourfilename") or die "can't open : $!"; close FILE;` [download] Update: Ah, i see prasadbabu understood your question better than i did, i second to his post. "We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise." - Larry Wall.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: pdf to text by arunmep (Beadle) on Jan 12, 2006 at 09:17 UTC
i need to extract the text from pdf files to an array element how can i do that using perl	[reply]
Re^3: pdf to text by marto (Cardinal) on Jan 12, 2006 at 09:30 UTC
arunmep, A few of your previous nodes ask this question, is there a particular part of the process you are having problems with? Have you used Super Search to find any examples? This has been covered before. Cheers, Martin	[reply]