NAME

       CAM::PDF::PageText - Extract text from PDF page tree

SYNOPSIS

          my $pdf = CAM::PDF->new($filename);
          my $pageone_tree = $pdf->getPageContentTree(1);
          print CAM::PDF::PageText->render($pageone_tree);

DESCRIPTION

       This module attempts to extract sequential text from a PDF page.  This is not a robust
       process, as PDF text is graphically laid out in arbitrary order.  This module uses a few
       heuristics to try to guess what text goes next to what other text, but may be fooled
       easily by, say, subscripts, non-horizontal text, changes in font, form fields etc.

       All those disclaimers aside, it is useful for a quick dump of text from a simple PDF file.

LICENSE

       Same as CAM::PDF

FUNCTIONS

       $pkg->render($pagetree)
       $pkg->render($pagetree, $verbose)
           Turn a page content tree into a string.  This is a class method that should be called
           like:

              CAM::PDF::PageText->render($pagetree);

AUTHOR

       See CAM::PDF