comp.lang.ruby

Eugen Minciu

7/27/2007 11:45:00 AM

Excerpts from Ben Gribaudo's message of Thu Jul 26 19:33:32 +0300 2007:
> Hello,
>
> I am putting together a PDF archive of our corporate newsletters. I'd
> like to iterate though a directory of PDFs, read their metadata (title,
> description, etc.) and use this info to dynamically generate a RHTML
> index page. There are several Ruby PDF libraries out there but they seem
> inclined towards creating PDFs instead of reading them. Any
> recommendations on a library to read PDF metadata?
>
> It would be neat to not only read metadata but also to pull the PDF's
> first page's thumbnail out as an image. This would allow dynamic
> creation of an index page that looks like this:
> http://www.reviveourhearts.com/difference/newsletter/newsletter_a...
>
> Any thoughts?
Have a look at http://extractor.rub... . You need libextractor
and its headers to compile it though. Would that work for you?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben

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Eugen Minciu.

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