any working PDF parsers ?

opensourcer has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, are there any working pdf parser available for perl, because I have tried all them. Following is output of PDF module.

Bad object reference '
' at test.pl line 6
Bad object reference '
' at test.pl line 6
Bad object reference '
' at test.pl line 6
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and the perl code is

use Data::Dumper;

use PDF;

$filename ="out.pdf";
$pdf=PDF->new($filename);
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I have also tried PDF::Parser, CAM::PDF and PDF::FDF::Simple. I'm trying every one of them on debian lenny (5.0.6) and perl, v5.10.0

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Re: any working PDF parsers ? by Corion (Patriarch) on Sep 22, 2010 at 18:56 UTC
Are you sure that your file is a valid PDF file? Because PDF (resp. PDF/Core.pm raises that error message when the file contains an invalid object reference line.	[reply]
Re^2: any working PDF parsers ? by opensourcer (Monk) on Sep 23, 2010 at 02:04 UTC
I tried like 15 pdf's	[reply]
Re^3: any working PDF parsers ? by Corion (Patriarch) on Sep 23, 2010 at 06:47 UTC
As far as I'm aware, people use PDF::API2 successfully. I don't know about the others.	[reply]