Perl code to convert pdf to text

Show Threads. Show Posts. Shell Programming and Scripting. Registered User. Join Date: Dec Code :. Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; at AM.. Join Date: Feb Join Date: Aug Hi, I have read very useful article about pdf to html at Nobleatom , I hope it will be helpful for you as well.

Converting secured pdf files to pdf using acroread. Does anybody have idea of Converting secured pdf files to pdf using acroread? Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Helping communities build their own LTE networks. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually.

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Error found. Pawan Rao Pawan Rao 1, 2 2 gold badges 10 10 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. Hello guys, thanks for the suggestions. I am using xpdf for extracting text from pdf files with the -raw option which removes those unwanted spaces. But now we want to convert the pdf files to html files for extracting the html formating tags like bold italics etc with the text.

I tried to use pdf2html for this but did not find it reliable as tags like sup and sub where missing. We are now using Acrobat Reader to save the pdf files as html file which gives us all the html formatting tags. Is there a way to use Acrobat reader in perl to save multiple pdf files as html files?

Thank you. Acrobat Professional allows you to have batch jobs. I realize it seems you'd like a free way out, yet, and since you are relying heavily on pdf extraction, getting a single license would have saved you a lot of time and money at this point. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. All those disclaimers aside, it is useful for a quick dump of text from a simple PDF file.

Improve this answer. I built the text extraction on a whim and it turned out to be a lot harder than I anticipated. Andrew Barnett Andrew Barnett 4, 1 1 gold badge 21 21 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges. It worse than this - text need not be laid out on the page in reading order.