Re: How to invoke pdftotext and extract first line of text from PDF file?

That's what I did:

  open ( my $fh, "-|","pdftotext -layout $file -") or
    die "error extracting $file";
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But I really recommend using pdftohtml -xml -stdout instead if you need more reliability about text position, page-number and font (-family, -size and -color) used.

Cheers Rolf

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Re^2: How to invoke pdftotext and extract first line of text from PDF file? by brycen (Monk) on Mar 29, 2010 at 05:21 UTC
You can use backticks also: $text = `$Globals::pdftotext_bin -layout $pdffile -`; if ($?) { log_error(...) } [download]	[reply] [d/l]


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