Pdf reader

ruby-talk
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Hi All,
anyone knows of a pdf reader lib? if not ruby, maybe something in perl/python.. (we'd like to read some pdf fields)
advance thanks for the info
-botp

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Google is your friend:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-pdf/

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2005/12/16, Peña, Botp <botp@delmonte-phil.com>:

Hi All,
anyone knows of a pdf reader lib? if not ruby, maybe something in perl/python.. (we'd like to read some pdf fields)
advance thanks for the info
-botp

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Gerardo Santana

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anyone knows of a pdf reader lib?

http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-pdf/

AFAIK, pdf-writer doesn't currently support *reading* PDFs, though it's a planned feature:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/152073

I've used pdftotext (part of the xpdf tools) to extract content from PDFs into ruby. But as the name suggests, it only helps with extracting text.

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

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