On 4/19/2015 3:34 PM, Phil Brewer wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone have any advise on converting a PDF to text, please (the > data I want to read is tabular)? > > I have used PDF::API2 to create PDFs before but it does not seem to be > able to read/parse them. I have also tried CAM::PDF but cannot get the > examples on the CPAN page to work without erroring. >
A command line but not perl solution might be: pdftotext.exe available as part of xpdf from http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html invoked with option "-fixed" or "-layout". --Suresh _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs