How to pull Text from a PDF using Perl?

[Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO]

I have tried both PDF::API2 and CAM::PDF and I must be misunderstanding how to 
use these modules. Here is the way I attempted using CAM::PDF

Source portion:
…
use CAM::PDF;
…………

            $MyPDF = CAM::PDF->new($MyFileIn); # a PDF file which has text

            $MyPDFPgCnt = $MyPDF->numPages();

            my $contentTree = $MyPDF->getPageContentTree(1);
            $contentTree->render("CAM::PDF::Renderer::Text");

        I get a lot of blank lines and the characters I do get, look like:

             3 U L Q W ♥ ' D W H ↔ ♥ ¶ § ↕ § § ↕ § ‼ ‼ ↓


                                                           & K L O G ♥ $ F F R 
X Q W V
                                7 L P H ↔ ♥ ¶ § ↔ ¶ ∟ 3 0
        I need to look at the text from page 1 of a couple of thousand pdf's 
and do a regex on searching for the data.
        Before sending I tried a number of other things, but either died or 
showed me data like the above.

        Any insight or simple script which will display the text would be 
greatly appreciated.

     Thanks.

  Wags ;)
David R Wagner
Senior Programmer Analyst
FedEx Freight
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