From: Jason Stewart <jstewart@...>
Date: 2013-06-04T05:49:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Question About OCR in Ruby vs. Rails

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Hi Kirk,

I've had pretty good luck shelling out to pdftotext to get the text from
PDFs into a searchable format. Is this what you mean by "break them down
into a database"?

Best Regards,
Jason



On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Kirk Keeter <kirkkeeter@gmail.com> wrote:

> Team,
>
> I'm working on a project that will involve processing 15,000+ complex
> financial documents.  They are in PDF form.
>
> Unfortunately, the documents are not available in a non-PDF form -- so I
> have to electronically scan the documents and "break them down" into a
> database.
>
> I'm familiar enough with Rails, that I feel comfortable doing it with the
> Rails framework -- but I'm not sure this is a good use of Rails.
>
> Ruby and Javascript are the only programming languages I know, so I'd
> either need to somehow do this as a Rails project (with Ruby and
> javascript), or as a Ruby project.
>
> If I do it as a Ruby project (not rails), can you make recommendations
> about the best way to go about it?
>
> Kirk Keeter
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div style>Hi Kirk,</div><div style><br></div><div style>I=
&#39;ve had pretty good luck shelling out to pdftotext to get the text from=
 PDFs into a searchable format. Is this what you mean by &quot;break them d=
own into a database&quot;?</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Best Regards,</div><div style>Jason</div><d=
iv style><br></div></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><br><div class=3D"g=
mail_quote">On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Kirk Keeter <span dir=3D"ltr">&=
lt;<a href=3D"mailto:kirkkeeter@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">kirkkeeter@gma=
il.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr">







<p>Team,</p>
<p>I&#39;m working on a project that will involve processing 15,000+ comple=
x financial documents. =A0They are in PDF form.<br></p>
<p>Unfortunately, the documents are not available in a non-PDF form -- so I=
 have to electronically scan the documents and &quot;break them down&quot; =
into a database.<br></p>
<p>I&#39;m familiar enough with Rails, that I feel comfortable doing it wit=
h the Rails framework -- but I&#39;m not sure this is a good use of Rails.<=
br></p>
<p>Ruby and Javascript are the only programming languages I know, so I&#39;=
d either need to somehow do this as a Rails project (with Ruby and javascri=
pt), or as a Ruby project.<br></p>
<p>If I do it as a Ruby project (not rails), can you make recommendations a=
bout the best way to go about it?<span class=3D"HOEnZb"><font color=3D"#888=
888"><br></font></span></p><span class=3D"HOEnZb"><font color=3D"#888888">
<p>Kirk Keeter<br></p></font></span></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div>

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