Ruby: Reading PDF files

Question

I\'m looking for a fast and reliable way to read/parse large PDF files in Ruby (on Linux and OSX).

Until now I\'ve found the rather old and simple PDF-toolkit (a pd

Answer 1

You might find Docsplit useful:

Docsplit is a command-line utility and Ruby library for splitting apart documents into their component parts: searchable UTF-8 plain text, page images or thumbnails in any format, PDFs, single pages, and document metadata (title, author, number of pages...)