Python, Perl & PDF files

[Alex]

rbt wrote:

> I just want to read PDF files in a portable way (windows, linux, mac) 
> from within Python.


reportlab is an excelent tool for generating pdf files, but as far as I 
know, it doesn't "read" pdf's.
http://www.reportlab.org/rl_toolkit.html

there's a project in sourceforge called pdf playground.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfplayground

it's supposed to read/write pdf files..
I never tried it, you might want to check it out.

I don't think there's something like perl's pdf support on python.
but you can find tools and libs that might help.

regards,
Alex