Re: parse content of PDF file

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Had they been converted to PDF via Acrobat (or such like) rather than scanned Images I would have suggested looking at CAM::PDF, however I think you are going to have to OCR each page of each document, since IIRC there won't be any (meaningful) text to parse within the PDF. You may want to start by looking at PDF::OCR (which IIRC uses Tesseract) , or some other OCR module from CPAN.

Check out the code.google page for tesseract-ocr

Update: Added link to tesseract-ocr

Hope this helps

Martin

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Re^2: parse content of PDF file by archfool (Monk) on Aug 03, 2007 at 14:07 UTC
Cool! There is some software out there for OCR! I'm going to check it out myself! :)	[reply]

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