RE: How to pull Text from a PDF using Perl?
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From: Dave Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 17:01
To: beginners@perl.org
Cc: Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
Subject: Re: How to pull Text from a PDF using Perl?
On 1/4/07, Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
I had to do this the other day and got frustrated with the modules I
found and ended up using pdftotext which comes with xpdf, like so:
my @pages = split /^L/, `$pdftotext -layout $inputfile -`;
for my $page (@pages) {
# do stuff
}
Without the -layout switch, parsing any sort of tabular data becomes a
lot more annoying.
Cheers,
Dave
-
Thanks much, David. I searched on internet and found the
download site. Brought it down and unzipped. Then made a initial run and
it got the data expected. Now will give it try on a larger scale.
I aprpeciate the time and response.
Wags ;)
David R Wagner
Senior Programmer Analyst
FedEx Freight
1.408.323.4225x2224 TEL
1.408.323.4449 FAX
http://fedex.com/us
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Re: How to pull Text from a PDF using Perl?
On 1/4/07, Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I need to look at the text from page 1 of a couple of thousand pdf's
and do a regex on searching for the data.
Before sending I tried a number of other things, but either died or
showed me data like the above.
Any insight or simple script which will display the text would be
greatly appreciated.
I had to do this the other day and got frustrated with the modules I
found and ended up using pdftotext which comes with xpdf, like so:
my @pages = split /^L/, `$pdftotext -layout $inputfile -`;
for my $page (@pages) {
# do stuff
}
Without the -layout switch, parsing any sort of tabular data becomes a
lot more annoying.
Cheers,
Dave
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How to pull Text from a PDF using Perl?
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
1.408.323.4225x2224 TEL
1.408.323.4449 FAX
http://fedex.com/us
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