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

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