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I haven't tried them yet but PDF and PDF::Parse APIs do not have the capability to search within a PDF file. The documentation shows that only the PDF doc properties can be retrived. I plan to try it out tonite anyways.
Thanks for your help.
-Sagar
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Have you tried grep? Strings, if I remember correctly, are stored as plain-text within the PDF format ...
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Much of what I see in PDF files is enclosed in 'stream' blocks, which appears to be a compression encoding. grep won't do it. When I am forced to do this myself, I sure hope one of the above mentioned modules or other will take care of pulling out the text I need to look at. (Oh, I'm not looking forward to this!)
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Could you update us on your progress?
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