From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2005-08-14T02:45:10+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby PDF text extractor On 8/13/05, Kevin Olbrich 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 -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca