pdftohtmlr

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h1. pdftohtmlr

Wrapper around the command line tool pdftohtml which converts PDF to HTML, go figure.

This gem was inspired by the MiniMagick gem - which does the same thing for ImageMagick (thanks Corey).

h1. Requirements

Just pdftohtml and Ruby (1.8.6+ as far as I know).

On Mac:

brew install pdftohtml

On Ubuntu: It should be installed by default with the 'poppler-utils' package.

h1. Install

"http://gemcutter.org/gems/pdftohtmlr":http://gemcutter.org/gems/pdftohtmlr

gem install pdftohtmlr

h1. Using

"gist examples":http://gist.github.com/254556

require 'pdftohtmlr'
require 'nokogiri'
include PDFToHTMLR
file = PdfFilePath.new([Path to Source PDF])
string = file.convert
doc = file.convert_to_document()

See included test cases for more usage examples, including passwords and URL fetching.

h1. license

MIT (See included MIT-LICENSE)