Dear Barbara, I don't quite understand what you're trying to do, but if you want to load a PDF, a package like XPDF might be useful. You can run it from Perl as a child process, extract the text from the PDF, read that into Perl and then use a regular expression to match any word or phrase you are looking for. I can't remember off-hand the url for XPDF, but try a Google search and you'll probably find it. (I use the pdftotext.exe and gzip.exe binaries.) (Sorry if I have misunderstood your requirements.) Chris Humphries Message: 4 From: "Clarke, Barbara P, HRSVC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to read a PDF file using Perl Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 15:23:56 -0500 Hi, Does anyone know how I can read a PDF file and then search for a keyword? Barbara Clarke _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/activeperl
