From: Chris Lowis Date: 2007-04-13T21:26:15+09:00 Subject: Re: Extract Text from PDF Robert Klemme wrote: > On 13.04.2007 14:06, Mark Dodwell wrote: >> Does anyone know a way to extract plain text from a PDF using Ruby? > > IIRC there is a project under way to extend PDFWriter with reading > capabilities. I don't know the current status of that. HTH In the meantime, you could use the commandline tools pdf2ps and ps2ascii (I think they use ghostscript as a backend), and read the resulting ascii file with ruby in the usual way. Regards, Chris -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.