1 files changed, 36 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/HTML/AutoConvert.pm b/lib/HTML/AutoConvert.pm
index 7df3b82..bdbc5fd 100644
--- a/lib/HTML/AutoConvert.pm
+++ b/lib/HTML/AutoConvert.pm
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ our $VERSION = '0.01';
     #or to turn on debugging
     my $converter = HTML::AutoConvert->new('debug'=>1);
 
+    my $html = $converter->html_convert( $file );
+    # OR 
     my( $html, @images ) = $converter->html_convert( $file );
 
     #turn on or off debugging later
@@ -58,7 +60,22 @@ sub new {
 
 =head2 html_convert FILENAME
 
-Convert the given filename to HTML.  The HTML output is returned as a scalar.
+Convert the given filename to HTML.
+
+In a scalar context, simply returns the HTML output as a scalar.
+
+    my $html = $converter->html_convert( $file );
+
+In a list context, returns a list consisting of the HTML output as a scalar,
+followed by references for each image extracted, if any.  Each image reference
+is a list reference consisting of two elements: the first is the filename and
+the second is the image itself.
+
+    my( $html, @images ) = $converter->html_convert( $file );
+    foreach my $image ( @images ) {
+      my( $filename, $data ) = @$image;
+      #...
+    }
 
 =cut
 
@@ -72,10 +89,21 @@ sub html_convert {
     or die "no registered handlers for filetype ". $self->filetype( $file );
 
   my( $converted, $html, $errors ) = ( 0, '', '' );
+  my @imgs = ();
   foreach my $handler ( @handlers ) {
 
     my $module = 'HTML::AutoConvert::'. $handler->{'module'};
-    my $tmp_html = eval { $module->html_convert( $self->{'file'} ) };
+
+    my $tmp_html = '';
+    my @tmp_imgs = ();
+    if ( $handler->{'returns_images'} && wantarray ) {
+      ( $tmp_html, @tmp_imgs ) =
+        eval { $module->html_convert( $self->{'file'} ) };
+    } else {
+      $tmp_html =
+        eval { $module->html_convert( $self->{'file'} ) };
+    }
+
     if ( $@ ) {
        my $tmp_err = "conversion with $module failed: $@\n";
        warn $tmp_err if $self->{'debug'};
@@ -85,12 +113,17 @@ sub html_convert {
 
     $converted = 1;
     $html = $tmp_html;
+    @imgs = @tmp_imgs;
     last;
   }
 
   die "couldn't convert $file:\n$errors" unless $converted;
 
-  $html;
+  if ( wantarray ) {
+    ( $html, @imgs );
+  } else {
+    $html;
+  }
 
 }