PdfExtractor

Extracts PDF information via PDFtk

Dependencies

• PDFtk

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'pdf_extractor'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install pdf_extractor

Usage

require 'pdf_extractor'
form = PdfExtractor.dump_data_fields("~/Downloads/testing_pdf.pdf")
puts form.first.inspect
# => {"FieldType"=>"Text", "FieldName"=>"customerNumber", "FieldNameAlt"=>"Customer ID number", "FieldFlags"=>"12582912", "FieldValue"=>"ID0000011", "FieldJustification"=>"Left"}

or

form = PdfExtractor.dump_data_fields_key_value("test/fixtures/testing_pdf.pdf")
puts form.inspect
# => {"customerNumber"=>"ID0000011"}

or

meta = PdfExtractor.dump_data("test/fixtures/testing_pdf.pdf")
puts meta.inspect
# => {"Creator"=>"PDFescape Online - https://www.pdfescape.com", "Title"=>"testing_pdf", "Producer"=>"RAD PDF 3.9.6.0 - https://www.radpdf.com", "ModDate"=>"D:20190625142342Z", "CreationDate"=>"D:20190625142056Z", "PdfID0"=>"fd1f5ca5bedbac4d46fa47241f696430", "PdfID1"=>"fd1f5ca5bedbac4d46fa47241f696430", "NumberOfPages"=>"1", "PageMediaNumber"=>"1", "PageMediaRotation"=>"0", "PageMediaRect"=>"0 0 595.28 841.89", "PageMediaDimensions"=>"595.28 841.89"}

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/jindrichskupa/pdf_extractor.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.