Re: Extracting information from a PDF file

There is a non-Perl way to do it, depending on what you're after and how many files you have. Adobe's website offers that as a free service, or at least they used to, so if you're having problems you might check that out as well.

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Re^2: Extracting information from a PDF file by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Aug 20, 2008 at 22:30 UTC
IIRC, Gmail will parse PDF attachments out for display as HTML too... I think I'm remembering right. It was a few months ago that I was playing with it and Adobe's service was either super slow or down. Obviously can't speak to the parse quality.	[reply]
Re^2: Extracting information from a PDF file by Lawliet (Curate) on Aug 20, 2008 at 20:35 UTC
Just one file. I need to upload the data I extract to a database. I'll try and see what I can find on their website. Update: Do you mean they can extract information or convert the file? :\ I'm so adjective, I verb nouns! chomp; # nom nom nom	[reply]
Re^3: Extracting information from a PDF file by Popcorn Dave (Abbot) on Aug 20, 2008 at 22:26 UTC
Been a while since I needed it, but as I remember you give them a link to your file and then they send you back the text via e-mail. Hopefully it will do what you want. Revolution. Today, 3 O'Clock. Meet behind the monkey bars. I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code	[reply]
Re^4: Extracting information from a PDF file by Lawliet (Curate) on Aug 20, 2008 at 22:29 UTC
Ah, thank you. I assume this is what you are referring to? I'm so adjective, I verb nouns! chomp; # nom nom nom	[reply]