Re^2: Extracting text from PDF. No really


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Re^2: Extracting text from PDF. No really

by clinton (Priest)

on Mar 29, 2008 at 13:04 UTC ( [id://677222]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Thanks for responding, Chris. You'd be interested to know (as I mentioned in the OP), that the question "how do I extract text from a PDF" comes up a lot, and that the standard answer is always CAM::PDF.

After your response, it seems that there is no Perl module for reading/rendering PDFs, and that about the only reliable OOS way to do it is via pdftotext from either Xpdf or Poppler.

Clint