From: Alex Fenton <alex@...>
Date: 2005-12-18T20:47:47+09:00
Subject: Re: pdf reader


>>anyone knows of a pdf reader lib? 
 
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-pdf/

AFAIK, pdf-writer doesn't currently support *reading* PDFs, though it's a planned feature:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/152073

I've used pdftotext (part of the xpdf tools) to extract content from PDFs into ruby. But as the name suggests, it only helps with extracting text.

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

a