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in reply to How to invoke pdftotext and extract first line of text from PDF file?

OK - figured it out - here's what worked for me: 

open (FILE, "pdftotext -layout foo.pdf - |");
$title = <FILE>;
print "<p>$title\n";
close FILE;

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