vmamaev/doc_ripper

Parse text contents from common file formats

DocRipper is an extremely lightweight Ruby wrapper that can be used to parse text contents from common file formats (currently .doc, .docx and .pdf) without the need for a large number of dependencies like an OCR library or OpenOffice/LibreOffice.

For simple parsing, you'll likely see a large performance improvement with DocRipper over solutions that rely on OpenOffice/LibreOffice for .doc/.docx conversion. I found

Need OCR support or in-image text parsing? Take a look at Docsplit.

Quickstart

  gem install doc_ripper

Specify a file to parse

  DocRipper::TextRipper.new('/path/to/file')

Return the file's text

  dr = DocRipper::TextRipper.new('/path/to/file')
  dr.text
  => "Document's text"

If the file cannot be read, nil will be returned.

  dr = DocRipper::TextRipper.new('/path/to/missing/file')
  dr.text
  => nil

Dependencies

• Ruby version >= 1.9.2
• Poppler-utils/(pdftotext) (PDF)
• Antiword (docx) more info: http://linux.die.net/man/1/antiword