On 8/13/05, Kevin Olbrich <kevin.olbr...@duke.edu> wrote:
> I notice that Ruby has lots of tools for creating PDF files, are there any > that let you extract text from a PDF file?
Not yet. PDF::Writer will be refactored a little bit for version 2.0 (coming out later this year) so that it will be three separate components: PDF::Core (the core objects representing a PDF object in memory, as well as rendering), PDF::Writer (the writer/layout code), and PDF::Reader (read a PDF object into an in-memory representation). Much of the code to do PDF::Core is already in place (it's currently called PDF::Writer::Object or PDF::Writer::Objects), but there's nothing explicitly present to represent this.
PDF::Reader will probably be released in early 2006, depending on how long it takes to refactor the code that already exists, properly extend it, and get the necessary PDF::Writer code finished.
-----Original Message----- From: Austin Ziegler [mailto:halosta...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 01:45 PM To: ruby-talk ML Subject: Re: Ruby PDF text extractor
On 8/13/05, Kevin Olbrich <kevin.olbr...@duke.edu> wrote: > I notice that Ruby has lots of tools for creating PDF files, are there > any that let you extract text from a PDF file?
Not yet. PDF::Writer will be refactored a little bit for version 2.0 (coming out later this year) so that it will be three separate components: PDF::Core (the core objects representing a PDF object in memory, as well as rendering), PDF::Writer (the writer/layout code), and PDF::Reader (read a PDF object into an in-memory representation). Much of the code to do PDF::Core is already in place (it's currently called PDF::Writer::Object or PDF::Writer::Objects), but there's nothing explicitly present to represent this.
PDF::Reader will probably be released in early 2006, depending on how long it takes to refactor the code that already exists, properly extend it, and get the necessary PDF::Writer code finished.
> PDF::Reader will probably be released in early 2006, depending on how > long it takes to refactor the code that already exists, properly > extend it, and get the necessary PDF::Writer code finished.
