note LanX That's what I [id://831190|did]: <c> open ( my $fh, "-|","pdftotext -layout $file -") or die "error extracting $file"; </c><P> But I really recommend using <c>pdftohtml -xml -stdout</c> instead if you need more reliability about text position, page-number and font (-family, -size and -color) used.<P> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-708738"> <p>Cheers Rolf </div></div> 831519 831519