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Apr 3, 2003, 2:12 PM
long327
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any module for PDF->html, DOC->html?
Hi all,

Is there any perl module for converting PDF and DOC files to HTML? I could not find any at CPAN.

Thanks.

Long
Apr 3, 2003, 3:14 PM
Paul
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Apr 3, 2003, 3:14 PM
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Easiest thing is probably post to the pre made adobe script...

http://access.adobe.com:8088/ads-cgi/convert.pl
Apr 3, 2003, 3:34 PM
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Hi Paul,

Thank you for reply, but I need to use the module in my code. They don't provide the source code.

Long
Apr 3, 2003, 3:38 PM
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I need to use the module in my code.
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Why?
Apr 3, 2003, 4:07 PM
long327
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I am working on a plugin which caches web pages for links in LinkSql database. It's essentially what Google does.

Long
Apr 4, 2003, 12:07 AM
yogi
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There's a command line utility called 'pdftotext' (on linux) that might do the job. I am not aware of any perl solutions.

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Apr 4, 2003, 3:24 AM
Wil
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Apr 4, 2003, 3:24 AM
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pdf2html

http://www.google.com/...r=&ie=ISO-8859-1

pdf2doc

http://www.google.com/...p;btnG=Google+Search

- wil
Apr 4, 2003, 6:40 AM
Paul
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I don't know of a pure perl solution. The only thing I can suggest to do is install something like this:

ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/...ocal/clock/pdf2html/

...and then you can execute it with a system command in your script.
Apr 4, 2003, 6:41 AM
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I am working on a plugin which caches web pages for links in LinkSql database. It's essentially what Google does.

That's fair enough but I'm not sure why you need the source code to be included in your script.