PDF Files

[godspeed06]

Can someone put me in the right direction for extraction information from pdf files?

Thanks!

 

[Rieekan]

Do a search on CPAN.org for PDF...

- George

 

[godspeed06]

Gotcha!

 

[PaulTEG]

useful extension for firefox, courtesy of Xaqte

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1227175&page=1

Paul
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Spend an hour a week on CPAN, helps cure all known programming ailments ;-)

 

[godspeed06]

Thanks Paul, this extension has been really helpful. I see that parsing a PDF document is not all that easy.

 

[Kirsle]

It depends on what you meant by "useful information"

http://search.cpan.org/~antro/PDF-111/PDF.pm

The synopsis seems to extract lots of useful information from PDF files. ;-)

 

[godspeed06]

Well in my case I want the data, say from an invoice. I want to extract all account information for a customer who is being sent their invoice via pdf. What I want to be able to do with perl, is to validate the information on the form is correct before sending it.

I am sure perl can do this just need an angle for getting started!

Agian,
Many Thanks!

 

[Kirsle]

You might want to try

http://search.cpan.org/

and search for PDF, there's lots of modules for it, you might find one that can do what you want.