Re: parsing PDF documents

2003-07-23 Thread Michele Marcionelli
- Original Message - From: "Sommer, Henrik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Ray Seals'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:33 PM Subject: RE: parsing PDF documents > > Ray, > Yes, you need

RE: parsing PDF documents

2003-07-23 Thread Sommer, Henrik
Ray, Yes, you need to call an executable called pdftotext. Once the PDF is made into text you can parse that. HS -Original Message- From: Ray Seals [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 2:29 PM To: Perl Subject: parsing PDF documents I know that normally the question

parsing PDF documents

2003-07-23 Thread Ray Seals
I know that normally the question would be, how do I create a PDF from perl. My question, is there a perl module that would allow me to open a PDF and parse it for specific information? There are a series of pdf files that are generated weekly. I want to read the file and pull out about 15 lines