rpdf extracts text and layout from PDF documents, using pdftohtml and cuneiform.

version 0.3 (2010-06-05)

INSTALLATION

rpdf requires

• pdftohtml (the Poppler version)
• cuneiform 0.9
• convert (ImageMagick)
• pdftk
• the Perl modules XML::Writer, XML::XPath, HTML::TreeBuilder

No further installation required. To test if it works, run

./rpdf test/simple.pdf ./rpdf test/ocr.pdf

USAGE

rpdf [-d int] [-p int] file.pdf

-d int : debug level -p int : max. number of pages to parse

If -p is not specified, what happens depends on whether rpdf can use pdftohtml or has to fall back on OCR.