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Convert PDF to XML in Ruby using poppler-utils
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pdf_to_xml.rb
# Install dependencies:
#
# posix-spawn (check all benefits at https://github.com/rtomayko/posix-spawn)
# gem install posix-spawn
#
# Poppler utils (http://poppler.freedesktop.org/)
# apt-get install poppler-utils
#
require 'posix/spawn'
def pdf_to_xml(pdf_path)
cmd = "pdftohtml -stdout -xml -i -fontfullname \"#{pdf_path}\" 2>&1"
POSIX::Spawn::Child.new(cmd).out
end
pdf_to_xml('sample.pdf')
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