Cam::PDF question

[LtCommander]

Hi all,

I am using the CAM:DF module to extract text from PDF files. (It's an
AMAZING module!!) You can pretty much do everything with it.

My snippet for extracting text from a PDF file is:

$pdf = CAM:DF->new($Fil);
$page = $pdf->getPageText($Pg);

This works fine for all pages without any graphics. I am able to print
the contents of $page without any problems whatsoever. However, if a
particular page has some sort of an inline graphic, the $page returns
an empty value!

I was wondering:
- If somebody knows how to remove all the graphics from the $pdf object
before running the next line of code. I think that should fix it and no
longer return any empty string.

I've tried searching plenty but no luck so far!

Would be grateful for your help.

Vince

 

[LtCommander]

Thanks a lot! I'll look into it.

use PDF::API, available from cpan.

(I also tried CAM:DF some while ago but pdf::api is better.)

 

[Greger]

Hi all,

I am using the CAM:DF module to extract text from PDF files. (It's an
AMAZING module!!) You can pretty much do everything with it.

My snippet for extracting text from a PDF file is:

$pdf = CAM:DF->new($Fil);
$page = $pdf->getPageText($Pg);

This works fine for all pages without any graphics. I am able to print
the contents of $page without any problems whatsoever. However, if a
particular page has some sort of an inline graphic, the $page returns
an empty value!

I was wondering:
- If somebody knows how to remove all the graphics from the $pdf object
before running the next line of code. I think that should fix it and no
longer return any empty string.

I've tried searching plenty but no luck so far!

Would be grateful for your help.

Vince

use PDF::API, available from cpan.

(I also tried CAM:DF some while ago but pdf::api is better.)

 

[Brian Wakem]

use PDF::API, available from cpan.

(I also tried CAM:DF some while ago but pdf::api is better.)

I've always shelled out to pdftotext, I'll have a look at PDF::API too.

 

[LtCommander]

Actually, I was pretty disappointed with PDF::API2 because it doesn't
even opent that PDF file! At least, CAM PDF returns nothing in the
pages with graphics. It opens other files though, but has trouble
opening the ones with graphics!