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PDF to Text converter using ruby
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
# frozen_string_literal: true | |
require 'pdf/reader' | |
# credits to : | |
# https://github.com/yob/pdf-reader/blob/master/examples/text.rb | |
# usage example: | |
# ruby pdf2txt.rb /path-to-file/file1.pdf [/path-to-file/file2.pdf..] | |
ARGV.each do |filename| | |
PDF::Reader.open(filename) do |reader| | |
puts "Converting : #{filename}" | |
pageno = 0 | |
txt = reader.pages.map do |page| | |
pageno += 1 | |
begin | |
print "Converting Page #{pageno}/#{reader.page_count}\r" | |
page.text | |
rescue | |
puts "Page #{pageno}/#{reader.page_count} Failed to convert" | |
'' | |
end | |
end | |
puts "\nWriting text to disk" | |
File.write "#{filename}.txt", txt.join("\n") | |
end | |
end |
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