NAME

Catmandu::Importer::PDF - Catmandu importer to extract data from one pdf

STATUS

SYNOPSIS

#From the command line

#Export pdf information, and text

$ catmandu convert PDF --file input.pdf to YAML

#In a script

use Catmandu::Sane;

use Catmandu::Importer::PDF;

my $importer = Catmandu::Importer::PDF->new( file => "/tmp/input.pdf" );

$importer->each(sub{

    my $pdf = $_[0];
    #..

});

EXAMPLE OUTPUT IN YAML

document:
  author: ~
  creation_date: 1207274644
  creator: PDFplus
  keywords: ~
  metadata: ~
  modification_date: 1421574847
  producer: "Nobody at all"
  subject: ~
  title: "Hello there"
  version: PDF-1.6
pages:
- label: Cover Page
  height: 878
  width: 595
  text: "Hello world"

INSTALLATION

In order to install this package you need the following system packages installed

• Centos

  Requires Centos 7 at minimum. Centos 6 only has poppler-glib 0.12.

  * perl-devel

  * make

  * gcc

  * gcc-c++

  * libyaml-devel

  * libyaml

  * poppler-glib ( >= 0.16 )

  * poppler-glib-devel ( >= 0.16 )

  * gobject-introspection-devel

• Ubuntu

  Requires Ubuntu 14 at minimum.

  * libpoppler-glib8

  * libpoppler-glib-dev

  * gobject-introspection

  * libgirepository1.0-dev

NOTES

* Catmandu::Importer::PDF returns one record, containing both document information, and page text

* Catmandu::Importer::PDFPages returns multiple records, each for each page

* Catmandu::Importer::PDFInfo returns one record, containing document information

KNOWN ISSUES

* Due to a bug in older versions of poppler-glib (bug #94173), the creation_date and modification_date can be returned in local time, instead of utc. This module tries to fix that.

* Some versions of Poppler add form feeds and newlines to a text line, while others don't.

AUTHORS

Nicolas Franck <nicolas.franck at ugent.be>

SEE ALSO

Catmandu::Importer::PDFInfo, Catmandu::Importer::PDFPages, Catmandu, Catmandu::Importer , Poppler