Perl Script that returns the number of pages in a PDF (used to work)

[2levelsabove]

I had this script that used to work in order to return the number of pages but it does not seem to work anymore.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use CAM::PDF;

if (defined($ARGV[0]) && -r $ARGV[0] && $ARGV[0] =~ /\.pdf/i) {
	my $pdf_file = $ARGV[0];
	my $doc = CAM::PDF->new($pdf_file, q{}, q{}, 1) || die "ERROR: $CAM::PDF::errstr\n";
	my $size = length $doc->{content};
	my $pages = $doc->numPages();

	print "$pages\n";
} else {
	print qq{ERROR: Unreadable file '$ARGV[0]' or not a pdf\n};
}

Now when I try running it, All I get is the error

please let me know if you see anything wrong

[eWish]

The code will not just stop working something was changed. It is a matter of figuring out changed. Has the module that you are using been updated? Have there been any changes to the server? What errors are you getting, please post the errors.

--Kevin

[2levelsabove]

Honestly I am just a new programmer on staff. Best of my knowledge nothing was.
And I am not too good at Perl. I call this module via PHP. Just wanted to see if everything looked OK here.


We have had some server inconsistencies . I am just trying to go through a process of elimination.

Oh and thanks for the quick reply

[2levelsabove]

Ok i went to shell and tried running it and got this error:

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Permission denied

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[2levelsabove]

changed permissions on the perl file and now get


ERROR: Cannot find the index in the PDF content


Sigh!!!

[eWish]

I don't see anything in the code that you posted that requires any authentication. So, it does not appear to be an issue with the code posted. Are the PDF files password protected? Are you requiring authentication to the directory where the files are located?

--Kevin

[2levelsabove]

Ok so this is what i found out. I can run the scripts in shell. But not when it comes to me running it from PHP

any insights ?