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

Greetings Monks,

I have several hundred PDF documents that need editing. Does perl have good utilities for opening, editing, and saving pdf files?

Thanks for any suggestions!

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Re: Edit PDF documents
by Ieronim (Friar) on Jul 13, 2006 at 17:16 UTC
    Simply search at this site :) The questions about PDF documents are asked quite often. There are many PDF-related modules at CPAN but there is no module that fits all needs. PDF::API2 seems to be the most powerful - and the most complicated.
      It may also depend on what you're actually editing. If you wish to update interactive forms on a PDF, the module PDF::Reuse will come in very handy. It is on CPAN.
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Re: Edit PDF documents
by Nevtlathiel (Friar) on Jul 13, 2006 at 17:10 UTC
    Yes

    You might get a less faceious answer if you can give more details about what you actually want done.

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Re: Edit PDF documents
by CountZero (Bishop) on Jul 13, 2006 at 19:36 UTC
    The CAM::PDF family of modules and scripts seem to be what you need.

    CountZero

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