From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2011-05-18T06:31:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Pdf Parsing Challenge

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Felipe Espinoza
<fespinozacast@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have to extract some data from a paper in a pdf format. I just need
> some data from the page 1, like the title of the paper, the authors
> list, the universities of these autors, their mails, the abstract and
> keywords
>
> how I can extract this data from this paper?
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6928078/CLEI_2008_002.pdf

Mark the text, copy it.

> It's not necessary to use this gem, but I need a string for each field
> with this info, how can I do that?

Open a text editor, paste it, and construct the data you need.

Doing the research for how to do what you want, and then writing and
debugging a script that does it, takes longer than just doing it by
hand. ;)

-- 
Phillip Gawlowski

Though the folk I have met,
(Ah, how soon!) they forget
When I've moved on to some other place,
There may be one or two,
When I've played and passed through,
Who'll remember my song or my face.