• NAME
• VERSION
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• OPTIONS
• ENVIRONMENT
  • DEBUG
• HOMEPAGE
• SOURCE
• SEE ALSO
• AUTHOR
• CONTRIBUTING
• COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
• BUGS

NAME

less-pdf-text - Less for seeing plaintext of PDF files

VERSION

This document describes version 0.015 of less-pdf-text (from Perl distribution App-PDFUtils), released on 2023-02-10.

SYNOPSIS

Use like you would use the Unix command less:

 % less-pdf-text [options] <PDF_FILE>...

DESCRIPTION

This is a wrapper for the Unix command less. It assumes that each input file is a PDF file and tries to convert the file to text first using pdftotext CLI utility first before passing it to less.

OPTIONS

These are options that are interpreted by less-pdf-text and not passed to less.

Please specify these options before file names.

• --pdf-pages

  Only diff a range of pages instead of the whole PDF. Example: 1,5-10,15. Requires pdftk to extract the page range.

• --pdf-raw

  If set, then pdftext command will be run using the -raw option.

ENVIRONMENT

DEBUG

If set to true, do not cleanup temporary directories.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-PDFUtils.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-App-PDFUtils.

SEE ALSO

Unix command less.

pdftotext utility.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTING

To contribute, you can send patches by email/via RT, or send pull requests on GitHub.

Most of the time, you don't need to build the distribution yourself. You can simply modify the code, then test via:

 % prove -l

If you want to build the distribution (e.g. to try to install it locally on your system), you can install Dist::Zilla, Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, Pod::Weaver::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, and sometimes one or two other Dist::Zilla- and/or Pod::Weaver plugins. Any additional steps required beyond that are considered a bug and can be reported to me.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2017 by perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-PDFUtils

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

cpanm App::PDFUtils

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install App::PDFUtils