Module to get text from a PDF page?

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Subject	Author	Date
Module to get text from a PDF page?	H. Wade Minter	01-06-2005

Posted by H. Wade Minter on January 6, 2005, 8:52 pm

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I'm looking for a Perl module that will give me the text from a page of a simple
(uncompressed, unencrypted) PDF. I've found several modules on CPAN that will
write text into PDFs, but nothing to get it out.

The closest possibilities look like PDF::API2 and Text::PDF. I've been working
with them, and they seem to be able to get at a lot of meta-information in a
PDF, but
unable to get at the actual text in the file.

My workaround is to shell out to pdftotext to get the text, but I'd like to have
a pure-perl solution if possible. Does anyone know of a module that can do this?

Thanks,
Wade

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