From: Kouhei Sutou <kou@...>
Date: 2007-04-13T22:19:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Extract Text from PDF

Hi,

2007/4/13, Mark Dodwell <seo@mkdynamic.co.uk>:

> Does anyone know a way to extract plain text from a PDF using Ruby?

You can use Ruby/Poppler:
  http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Ruby%2FPoppler

Here is an example to do that:
  http://ruby-gnome2.cvs.sourceforge.net/ruby-gnome2/ruby-gnome2/poppler/sample/pdf2text.rb?revision=HEAD&view=markup


Thanks,
--
kou