I don't know of any Perl solution off the top of my head (check out CPAN), I instead use xPDF which includes a command line utility pdftotext.
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/about.html Rob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: pdf2txt I am trying to convert a pdf (and for that matter a postscript) type file to plain text. Response to my earlier mail suggested using File:Slurp, specifically; #!/usr/bin/perl use File::Slurp; use CGI qw/:standard/; $pdf_guts = read_file("/path/to/my.pdf"); --------------------------------- In the above, however, $pdf_guts is an "unintelligible text file" (same contents and size as the pdf). What I will really love is a true conversion script (similar to html2txt). Thanks to all who responded to my earlier mail. __________________ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
