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03-23-2012

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Hi.

In the Debian repositories are many items that deal with PDFs. Among them is:

Code:

NAME
       pdftotext - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version
       3.02)

SYNOPSIS
       pdftotext [options] [PDF-file [text-file]]

DESCRIPTION
       Pdftotext converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to plain text.

I found very little in the standard SuSE repositories. Perhaps you can search for better repositories for SuSE.

The package that includes pdftotext is:

Code:

 xpdf is a suite of tools for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are
 sometimes called 'Acrobat' files after the name of Adobe's PDF software.)
 .
 The tools include xpdf, a PDF viewer (in the package xpdf-reader),
 and PDF converters (including to/from PostScript) (in the package
 xpdf-utils).

And a link that may be of use is: Xpdf At the site several links are provided for pre-compiled instances for numerous *nix including BSDs, Solaris, and HP-UX.

I just tried a test run of pdftotext on the documentation pdf for msort. It produced text just as promised -- pdftotext version 3.02

Best wishes ...cheers, drl

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pdf::api2::basic::pdf::dict

PDF::API2::Basic::PDF::Dict(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  PDF::API2::Basic::PDF::Dict(3pm)

NAME

       PDF::API2::Basic::PDF::Dict - PDF Dictionaries and Streams. Inherits from PDF::Objind

INSTANCE VARIABLES

       There are various special instance variables which are used to look after, particularly, streams. Each begins with a space:

       stream
	   Holds the stream contents for output

       streamfile
	   Holds the stream contents in an external file rather than in memory. This is not the same as a PDF file stream. The data is stored in
	   its unfiltered form.

       streamloc
	   If both ' stream' and ' streamfile' are empty, this indicates where in the source PDF the stream starts.

METHODS

   $d->outobjdeep($fh)
       Outputs the contents of the dictionary to a PDF file. This is a recursive call.

       It also outputs a stream if the dictionary has a stream element. If this occurs then this method will calculate the length of the stream
       and insert it into the stream's dictionary.

   $d->read_stream($force_memory)
       Reads in a stream from a PDF file. If the stream is greater than "PDF::Dict::mincache" (defaults to 32768) bytes to be stored, then the
       default action is to create a file for it somewhere and to use that file as a data cache. If $force_memory is set, this caching will not
       occur and the data will all be stored in the $self->{' stream'} variable.

   $d->val
       Returns the dictionary, which is itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2014-03-09					  PDF::API2::Basic::PDF::Dict(3pm)