Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks
There's more than one way to do things
 
PerlMonks  

Re: Search within a PDF file

by dragonchild (Archbishop)
on Jan 27, 2005 at 20:27 UTC ( [id://425751]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Search within a PDF file

Have you tried grep? Strings, if I remember correctly, are stored as plain-text within the PDF format ...

Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing.
Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid.
Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence.
Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^2: Search within a PDF file
by shenme (Priest) on Jan 28, 2005 at 03:29 UTC
    Much of what I see in PDF files is enclosed in 'stream' blocks, which appears to be a compression encoding. grep won't do it. When I am forced to do this myself, I sure hope one of the above mentioned modules or other will take care of pulling out the text I need to look at. (Oh, I'm not looking forward to this!)

Log In?
Username:
Password:

What's my password?
Create A New User
Domain Nodelet?
Node Status?
node history
Node Type: note [id://425751]
help
Chatterbox?
and the web crawler heard nothing...

How do I use this?Last hourOther CB clients
Other Users?
Others sharing their wisdom with the Monastery: (6)
As of 2024-04-24 11:42 GMT
Sections?
Information?
Find Nodes?
Leftovers?
    Voting Booth?

    No recent polls found