PDF and Word to screen

[rob_1029384756]

Hi,

I'm having a few difficulties with perl. I have a database (mysql)
full of files, in particular medium blobs all of which are word
documents (for 1 type) and pdf's (for another type). I can download
these quite happily (all works / no corruption).

However, what I would really like to do is load a page with some text,
the infomation on the word document, and the info on the pdf.

Is this possible? I have been searching, but am finding nothing except
a little about creating pdf/docs. If so, it would be a great help if
someone could point me in the right direction or link me to any
documentation.

Unsure to what version of perl I am using (will be quite recent) but
its being run on unix servers.

Thanks for any help,

Rob.

 

[axel]

I'm having a few difficulties with perl. I have a database (mysql)
full of files, in particular medium blobs all of which are word
documents (for 1 type) and pdf's (for another type). I can download
these quite happily (all works / no corruption).

However, what I would really like to do is load a page with some text,
the infomation on the word document, and the info on the pdf.

Is this possible? I have been searching, but am finding nothing except
a little about creating pdf/docs. If so, it would be a great help if
someone could point me in the right direction or link me to any
documentation.

You might find the following of use:

xpdf http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
pdftohtml http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/

Axel

 

[rob_1029384756]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. It looks like I do need something like. Thanks.

Rob.