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

After trying different methods, I'm using PDF-Toolkit now. It's quite old, but it's fast, stable and reliable. Besides, it really doesn't need to be new, because it just wraps the xpdf commandline utilities.