benbalter / pdftotext

A Ruby wrapper for the `pdftotext` command line library

Pdftotext

A Ruby wrapper for the pdftotext command line library

Installation

1. You must first install Poppler. On OS X this can be done with brew install poppler if you have Homebrew installed
2. Add gem "pdftotext" to your project's Gemfile
3. bundle install

Usage

text = Pdftotext.text('path-to.pdf')
=> "The text of the PDF"

pages = Pdftotext.pages('path-to.pdf')
pages.first.number
=> 1
pages.first.text
=> "The text of the PDF"

Both methods take an optional hash of command line arguments to pass to pdftotext. The only one by default being -layout.