From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-08-23T02:03:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing pdf files

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Arun Kumar<arun.einstein@gmail.com> wrote:
> hello all,
>                 Does anyone know a good pdf parser that retains formatting
> after its extracted text? I used PDF::Reader, but when you extract text you
> just get a stream of characters that are not at all intelligible. When I
> copy a pdf contents from a pdf reader to Gedit text editor in linux it
> retains its format. I'm looking for something like that.

This doesn't exist in Ruby, unfortunately.

-greg