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#!perl
use 5.010001;
use strict;
#use Log::ger::Screen;
use CLI::MetaUtil::Getopt::Long::Complete qw(GetOptionsCLIWrapper);
use File::chdir;
use File::Slurper qw(read_binary);
use File::Temp qw(tempdir);
use File::Which qw(which);
use Getopt::Long ();
use IPC::System::Options 'system', -log=>1, -die=>1;
our $AUTHORITY = 'cpan:PERLANCAR'; # AUTHORITY
our $DATE = '2024-09-28'; # DATE
our $DIST = 'App-PDFUtils'; # DIST
our $VERSION = '0.016'; # VERSION
my @files;
Getopt::Long::Configure("gnu_getopt", "no_ignore_case", "pass_through");
my $fail;
my ($opt_pages, $opt_raw);
GetOptionsCLIWrapper(
cli => 'less',
add_opts => {
'pdf-pages=s' => \$opt_pages,
'pdf-raw' => \$opt_raw,
'<>' => sub {
my $arg = shift;
if ($arg =~ /\A\+/) {
# less command, push to original command's arguments
goto PUSH;
}
my $filename = $arg;
unless (-f $filename) {
warn "less-pdf-text: No such file or not a file: '$filename'\n";
$fail++;
return;
}
require App::PDFUtils;
my $res = App::PDFUtils::convert_pdf_to_text(
file => $filename,
fmt => 0,
return_output_file => 1,
raw => $opt_raw,
(defined $opt_pages ? (pages => $opt_pages) : ()),
);
my $file;
if ($res->[0] == 304) {
$file = $_[0];
} elsif ($res->[0] == 200) {
$file = $res->[2];
} else {
die "Can't convert PDF '$_[0]' to text: $res->[0] - $res->[1]";
}
$arg = $file;
PUSH:
push @CLI::MetaUtil::Getopt::Long::Complete::cli_argv, $arg;
},
arg_completion => sub {
require Complete::File;
my %args = @_;
Complete::File::complete_file(filter=>sub { $_[0] =~ /\.pdf\z/i }, word=>$args{word});
},
},
);
exit 1 if $fail;
require File::Which;
IPC::System::Options::system(
{log=>1},
"less", @ARGV,
);
# ABSTRACT: Less for seeing plaintext of PDF files
# PODNAME: less-pdf-text
__END__
=pod
=encoding UTF-8
=head1 NAME
less-pdf-text - Less for seeing plaintext of PDF files
=head1 VERSION
This document describes version 0.016 of less-pdf-text (from Perl distribution App-PDFUtils), released on 2024-09-28.
=head1 SYNOPSIS
Use like you would use the Unix command B<less>:
% less-pdf-text [options] <PDF_FILE>...
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This is a wrapper for the Unix command B<less>. It assumes that each input file
is a PDF file and tries to convert the file to text first using B<pdftotext> CLI
utility first before passing it to C<less>.
=head1 OPTIONS
These are options that are interpreted by B<less-pdf-text> and not passed to
B<less>.
B<Please specify these options before file names.>
=over
=item * --pdf-pages
Only diff a range of pages instead of the whole PDF. Example: 1,5-10,15.
Requires B<pdftk> to extract the page range.
=item * --pdf-raw
If set, then C<pdftext> command will be run using the C<-raw> option.
=back
=head1 ENVIRONMENT
=head2 DEBUG
If set to true, do not cleanup temporary directories.
=head1 HOMEPAGE
Please visit the project's homepage at L<https://metacpan.org/release/App-PDFUtils>.
=head1 SOURCE
=head1 SEE ALSO
Unix command B<less>.
B<pdftotext> utility.
=head1 AUTHOR
perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>
=head1 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 L<Dist::Zilla>,
L<Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR>,
L<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.
=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2024, 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.
=head1 BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website L<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.
=cut