Ruby

PDF Text Extraction Examples for Ruby

• Getting Started

• Extract Text from a PDF
• Extract PDF Text to a StringBuilder and Save to a File
• Extract Text from Specific PDF Pages
• PDF Text Layouts: flow, lines and grid

• PDF to Markdown

• Extract PDF to Markdown
• PDF to Markdown Options: Page Breaks, Images, Tables, Emphasis, Heading Levels
• PDF Footnotes in Markdown: Inline, at the End, or Dropped
• Code Blocks and Code Spans in PDF to Markdown

• Searching and Finding Values

• Search for Text in a PDF
• Search a PDF with a Regular Expression
• Get a PDF Field Value by its Label (Value to the Right)
• Get the Text Block Below a PDF Caption
• Get Every Occurrence of a Label in a PDF
• Extract One Section of a PDF by its Heading

• Tables and Form Fields

• Extract Tables from a PDF
• Extract a PDF Table with Merged Cells
• Extract the Values of PDF Form Fields

• Page Layout: Columns, Headers and Margins

• Extract Text from a Two-Column PDF
• Exclude or Include Running Headers and Page Numbers
• Exclude Rotated Margin Text from PDF Extraction
• Clipped, Off-Page and White-on-White Text in PDF Extraction

• Text Quality, OCR and Unicode

• Assess PDF Text Quality Before Extracting
• Extract the OCR Text Layer of a Scanned PDF
• Rejoin Words Hyphenated at Line Ends
• Expand Ligatures and Normalize Unicode in Extracted PDF Text
• Extract Right-to-Left (Hebrew, Arabic) Text in Logical Order

• Password-Protected and Copy-Protected PDFs

• Extract Text from a Password-Protected PDF
• Extract Text from a PDF that Forbids Copying