You can download and install xpdf, that actually contains "pdftotext" and
other tools:
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html
Cheers, Michele
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sommer, Henrik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Ray Seals'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:33 PM
Subject: RE: parsing PDF documents
>
> Ray,
> Yes, you need to call an executable called pdftotext. Once the PDF is made
> into text you can parse that.
>
> HS
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Seals [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 2:29 PM
> To: Perl
> Subject: parsing PDF documents
>
> I know that normally the question would be, how do I create a PDF from
> perl. My question, is there a perl module that would allow me to open a
> PDF and parse it for specific information?
>
> There are a series of pdf files that are generated weekly. I want to
> read the file and pull out about 15 lines of text.
>
> Ray
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