RE: PDF to Text

2015-04-28 Thread Phil Brewer
[mailto:pbre...@sky.com] Sent: 19 April 2015 23:35 To: 'perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com' Subject: PDF to Text Hi Does anyone have any advise on converting a PDF to text, please (the data I want to read is tabular)? I have used PDF::API2 to create PDFs before but it does not seem

PDF to Text

2015-04-19 Thread Phil Brewer
Hi Does anyone have any advise on converting a PDF to text, please (the data I want to read is tabular)? I have used PDF::API2 to create PDFs before but it does not seem to be able to read/parse them. I have also tried CAM::PDF but cannot get the examples on the CPAN page to work without

Re: PDF to Text

2015-04-19 Thread Suresh Govindachar
On 4/19/2015 3:34 PM, Phil Brewer wrote: Hi Does anyone have any advise on converting a PDF to text, please (the data I want to read is tabular)? I have used PDF::API2 to create PDFs before but it does not seem to be able to read/parse them. I have also tried CAM::PDF but cannot get

Re: PDF to Text

2015-04-19 Thread Leo Susanto
If that is the case, usually the pdf file is only an encapsulation of an image file. Then you need OCR. On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Phil Brewer pbre...@sky.com wrote: Hi Does anyone have any advise on converting a PDF to text, please (the data I want to read is tabular)? I have