[vox-tech] How to tell if a pdf is text or image?

[Gandalf Parker]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Alex Mandel wrote:

> Anyone know a way to tap into a pdf programmatically to tell if it contains 
> text vs was scanned as an image?

ImageMagick has a great command for giving info about a format, and it 
pipes really well. But come to think of it....
(shelling out)
gandalf@$ man -k pdf |grep info
pdfinfo (1)          - Portable Document Format (PDF) document information 
extractor (version 3.00)
(returned from shell)

Yeah see if you have pdfinfo on your machine.

Gandalf  Parker
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