---
name: "CAM::PDF::PageText"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libcam-pdf-perl"
version: "1.60-5"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/CAM::PDF::PageText"
---

# CAM::PDF::PageText(3pm)

Extract text from PDF page tree

## 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