Ruby PDF text extractor

[Kevin Olbrich]

I notice that Ruby has lots of tools for creating PDF files, are there any
that let you extract text from a PDF file?

_Kevin

[Austin Ziegler]

On 8/13/05, Kevin Olbrich <kevin....@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.

-austin
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* Alternate: aus...@halostatue.ca

[Kevin Olbrich]

Thanks, I'll keep my eyes open for it.

_Kevin

[Andreas Schrafl]

I once wrote a Ruby PDF Text extractor while workin at ywesee.

I tought they released it on rubyforge but I can't find it anymore.
perhaps if you contact them they can help you.
www.ywesee.com

Greetings
Andy

[Martin DeMello]

Austin Ziegler <halos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

I'd be interested in helping with this.

martin