Python, Perl & PDF files
rbt
rbt at athop1.ath.vt.edu
Tue Apr 26 16:49:57 EDT 2005
Cameron Laird wrote:
> In article <d4j91s$bfp$1 at solaris.cc.vt.edu>,
> rbt <rbt at athop1.ath.vt.edu> wrote:
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>>OK, I'm done seeking to provoke. So, it's official. Perl has *much*,
>>*much* better support for dealing with PDF files than does Python.
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> No, it's not; maybe Perl even has *worse* support. At the very least,
> there's more redundancy in what Perl offers.
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> I understand that <URL: http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/search?query=pdf&mode=dist >
> looks rather convincing; in fact, a couple of years ago, we argued <URL:
> http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=7822/ur0304g/ > that indeed Perl was
> ahead. I'm not sure that's true now.
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> Rather than wander into all the details, let's start over: what kinds of
> things do you think you want to do with PDFs? You might be surprised to
> find that, despite all that CPAN *seems* to offer, your needs aren't met
> at all. Or maybe they are. It depends. Let's get specific.
Read and search them for strings. If I could do that on windows, linux
and mac with the *same* bit of Python code, I'd be very happy ;)
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