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Dependencies

  • GraphicsMagick
  • poppler-utils
  • open office -- will this work with Open Office on server?
gem 'docsplit'

Extraction

a = Docsplit.extract_text '/path/to/file'   #creates a pdf at an obscure (temp?) file location
content = `pdftotext #{a.first} -`          #dash sends results to stdout
  • Possibly need a script to remove pdfs generated by this process
  • seems like a lot of overhead to grab text from a ppt . . . but it seems to work
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