How can I extract text from a PDF file in Perl?

Question

I am trying to extract text from PDF files using Perl. I have been using pdftotext.exe from command line (i.e using Perl system function) for extra

Answer 1

i tried this module which is working fine for special characters of pdf..

!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use PDF::OCR::Thorough;

my $filename = "pdf.pdf";

my $pdf = PDF::OCR::Thorough->new($filename);
my $text = $pdf->get_text();
print "$text";