NAME

pdfcheck - check a pdf document for correctness and compatibility with ocr

DESCRIPTION

Test a pdf document for what we can do with it on this system. Test a pdf file for ability to pass ocr. This tests problem pdf documents, for things like malformed xref tables. These are pdf documents that for some reason are not spitting out text, and you think they should.

The order of tests are

basic filesystem check
check for PDF::API2 and CAM::PDF
PDF::Burst
PDF::OCR2

USAGE

pdfcheck [OPTION].. [FILE]..

OPTION

-d       debug   
-h       help
-v       version
-b       attempt PDF::Burst and PDF::OCR2

Usage Examples

pdfcheck ./file.pdf

SEE ALSO

PDF::OCR2 - parent package.

BUGS

If the test fails, and you think this is an error- that the file should pass- then please contact leocharre at cpan dot org, with the output and the test file.

pdfcheck ./file.pdf > output.txt

AUTHOR

Leo Charre leocharre at cpan dot org

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2009 Leo Charre. All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, i.e., under the terms of the "Artistic License" or the "GNU General Public License".

DISCLAIMER

This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

See the "GNU General Public License" for more details.