[Omaha.pm] Re: [olug] Report Generator

[Jay Hannah <jay@jays.net>]

On May 28, 2004, at 7:02 PM, Eric Penne wrote:
> The plot generated by the scanning software are in PDF.  The 
> individual test values measured are also included in that plot.  I 
> need to extract that data from the PDF.

There's one billion + 1 PDF read/write packages for Perl:

   http://search.cpan.org/search?query=pdf&mode=all

> The final customer report is done in MSWord and saved.  Then it is 
> printed to PDF with Acrobat4.  With Acrobat4 we sign it and send it.
>
> I need to get everything to MSWord first so that it can be put 
> together for final output in PDF.

Sorry I'm so slow -- I still don't see the point in the MSWord step. 
You can string anything you want straight from whatever format into 
.pdf...

Missing something as usual,  -grin-

j