I would start with pdftotext  and then parse from there...

pdftotext is part of the poppler-utils package on my system(Ubuntu)

-joel

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 15:13 -0700, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. wrote:
> I need to parse this PDF into a delimited text format
> 
> http://www.riversideca.gov/finance/pdf/Business_List.pdf
> 
> (Ideally, I'd like to do it in Perl b/c I hear Perl has some great
> scraping/parsing features that would benefit me later on when I need
> to do this kind of thing again.) 
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> (I can copy the text into a txt file first, in case that makes the
> scraping/parsing easier)
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