Re: Reading output of external program without Shell

Apropos pdftotext. What about CAM::PDF to extract the text? As far as i remember it comes with such a feature. Regards, Karl

Update: Just found an example on my box. I didn't remember that it is so simple:

#!/usr/bin/env perl


use strict;
use warnings;
use CAM::PDF;
use feature qw(say);


my $file = shift;

my $pdf = CAM::PDF->new($file);
say $pdf->getPageText(1);

__END__
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Re^2: Reading output of external program without Shell by Anonymous Monk on Nov 15, 2017 at 18:27 UTC
Hi karlgoethebier. I tried in the past CAM::PDF; . In the future I may opt for it, but at the moment I think the quality of output of pdftotext (from xpdf) is unbeatable (but I'll run some more tests)	[reply]
Re^3: Reading output of external program without Shell by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Nov 15, 2017 at 19:08 UTC
Thanks for your kind reply. BTW, as far as i vaguely remember this doesn't call a shell: `#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use IPC::Run qw( run ); use feature qw(say); my $command = q(cat); my $text = run qq($command $0); say $text; __END__` [download] Best regards, Karl ŤThe Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostropheť `perl -MCrypt::CBC -E 'say Crypt::CBC->new(-key=>'kgb',-cipher=>"Blowfish")->decrypt_hex($ENV{KARL});'`Help	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Reading output of external program without Shell by haukex (Archbishop) on Nov 15, 2017 at 20:38 UTC
this doesn't call a shell The code you showed does, but if you give `run` an arrayref, it does not (at least on *NIX): `$ perl -wMstrict -MIPC::Run=run -e' run "pstree -A $$" ' perl---sh---pstree $ perl -wMstrict -MIPC::Run=run -e' run ["pstree","-A",$$] ' perl---pstree` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Reading output of external program without Shell by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Nov 16, 2017 at 11:34 UTC
Re^6: Reading output of external program without Shell by haukex (Archbishop) on Nov 16, 2017 at 12:09 UTC
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