Extract Text From All the Pages of a PDF Document in Ruby

Aspose.PDF - Extract Text From All the Pages

To extract TextrFrom All the Pages Pdf document using Aspose.PDF Java for Ruby, simply invoke ExtractTextFromAllPages module.

Ruby Code

# The path to the documents directory.

data_dir = File.dirname(File.dirname(File.dirname(File.dirname(__FILE__)))) + '/data/'

# Open the target document

pdf = Rjb::import('com.aspose.pdf.Document').new(data_dir + 'input1.pdf')

# create TextAbsorber object to extract text

text_absorber = Rjb::import('com.aspose.pdf.TextAbsorber').new

# accept the absorber for all the pages

pdf.getPages().accept(text_absorber)

# In order to extract text from specific page of document, we need to specify the particular page using its index against accept(..) method.

# accept the absorber for particular PDF page

# pdfDocument.getPages().get_Item(1).accept(textAbsorber);

#get the extracted text

extracted_text = text_absorber.getText()

# create a writer and open the file

writer = Rjb::import('java.io.FileWriter').new(Rjb::import('java.io.File').new(data_dir + "extracted_text.out.txt"))

writer.write(extracted_text)

# write a line of text to the file

# tw.WriteLine(extractedText);

# close the stream

writer.close()

puts "Text extracted successfully. Check output file."

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