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Re: Re: PDF GetInfo(

by axelrose (Scribe)
on May 13, 2002 at 11:13 UTC ( [id://166148]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: PDF GetInfo(
in thread PDF GetInfo(

With the help of Alan Fry I could manage to get a fast solution like this
sub gettitle { use Fcntl; my $file = shift; local *IN; sysopen( IN, $file, O_RDONLY, 0 ) or die "while reading: '$file'\n"; read IN, my ($str), -s $file; close IN; my ($info_block) = ( $str =~ /\/Info\s(\d+)\s0\sR/ ) or die "cannot get /Info paragraph\n"; my $searchpos = -1; my $info_start; while (1) { $info_start = index( $str, "$info_block 0 obj", $searchpos + 1 ); die "cannot get position of '$info_block 0 obj'\n" if $info_start < $searchpos + 1; last if ( substr( $str, $info_start - 1, 1 ) =~ /\015|\012/ ); $searchpos = $info_start; } my $info_obj = substr( $str, $info_start, index( $str, ">>", $info_start ) - $info_start + 2 ); my ($title) = ( $info_obj =~ /\/Title\s*\( ([^\015\012|\015|\012]*) \) /x ) or return 'undefined'; return $title; }

I furthermore compared the performance of the above solution with Text::PDF and PDF-111 from CPAN. The test set consisted of 36 PDF files summing up to 3.8 MB.

runtime ratios of
index-solution-from-above : Text::PDF methods : PDF-111
were:
1 : 6 : 12

PDF-111 from CPAN has other flaws too. The author didn't respond to my questions. IMHO it should be dumped. It has a far to promiment place in the module hierarchy.

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Re(3): PDF GetInfo()
by Arguile (Hermit) on Aug 16, 2002 at 18:59 UTC

    I'll grant you PDF has some definite flaws but the above solution does as well unfortunately.

    It has trouble with titles that were truncated due to length – it returns them as undefined. There also seems to be some problems with asian languages.

    I like the speed and mem use compared to some of the others (about 4× faster than PDF->GetInfo). I need to muck about in the info section for some other stuff hopefully I'll figure out the format for long titles. Thanks.

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