Yes, and thanks to all. xpdf did it. I comes standard with Redhat 8.0, so
I did not have do download antthing.
Thanks a lot.
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William Ampeh (x3939)
Federal Reserve Board
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> I don't know of any Perl solution off the top of my head
> (check out CPAN), I instead use xPDF which includes a command
> line utility pdftotext.
>
> http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/about.html
Exactly what you need!!
Now all you have to do is figure out what command line command you'd
use to
I don't know of any Perl solution off the top of my head (check out CPAN), I
instead use xPDF which includes a command line utility pdftotext.
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/about.html
Rob
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> I am trying to convert a pdf (and for that matter a
> postscript) type file to plain text. Response to my earlier
> mail suggested using File:Slurp, specifically;
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use File::Slurp;
> use CGI qw/:standard/;
>
> $pdf_guts = read_file("/path/to/my.pdf");
Yes $pdf_guts
