This gem lets you extract plain text from PDF documents. It is a Jruby wrapper for the Apache PDFBox library.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'pdfbox_text_extraction'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install pdfbox_text_extraction

To extract all text on every page:

extracted_text = PdfboxTextExtraction.run(path_to_pdf)

To extract text inside a crop area:

extracted_text = PdfboxTextExtraction.run(
  path_to_pdf,
  {
    crop_x: 0, # crop area top left corner x-coordinate
    crop_y: 1.0, # crop area top left corner y-coordinate
    crop_width: 8.5, # crop area width
    crop_height: 9.4, # crop area height
  }
)

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/jhund/pdfbox_text_extraction/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

• Source code (github)
• Issues
• Rubygems.org

MIT licensed.

Copyright (c) 2016 Jo Hund. See (MIT) LICENSE for details.