In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . .
OK, I'm done seeking to provoke. So, it's official. Perl has *much*, *much* better support for dealing with PDF files than does Python.
. . . No, it's not; maybe Perl even has *worse* support. At the very least, there's more redundancy in what Perl offers.
I understand that <URL: http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/search?query=pdf&mode=dist >
looks rather convincing; in fact, a couple of years ago, we argued <URL:
http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=7822/ur0304g/ > that indeed Perl was
ahead. I'm not sure that's true now.
Rather than wander into all the details, let's start over: what kinds of things do you think you want to do with PDFs? You might be surprised to find that, despite all that CPAN *seems* to offer, your needs aren't met at all. Or maybe they are. It depends. Let's get specific.
Read and search them for strings. If I could do that on windows, linux and mac with the *same* bit of Python code, I'd be very happy ;)
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