Comments on: Ruby PDF Reader Gem Tutorial

By: David James

David James — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 01:17:57 +0000

Thanks for the post. I wanted to mention that using sudo for gem installs is not recommended. It is rarely necessary and a security risk. It should only be used as a last resort. It installed fine for me with `gem install pdf-reader`.

By: Ivan Kataitsev

Ivan Kataitsev — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:00:33 +0000

You made my day, dude. Thanks!

By: hookercookerman

hookercookerman — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:07:25 +0000

I was considering taken the most daunting task of making a html5 canvas pdf viewer. I came across your gem, which is working very well; As you seem to be a pdf king; I was hoping for some advise;

Firstly I will be digging through the specifications; But can you recommend any other reading;
or even approaches that you may take if one was to tackle this task;

Cheers

By: Jon Kern

Jon Kern — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:45:28 +0000

Thanks! Nice post.

Do you have any examples of trying to ascertain text position? For example, I would like to know if text is within the footer or header (i.e., Y=position), so that it doesn’t come across when I try and select text between two keywords that ends up spanning two pages.

Also, I would like to know when there is bold, uppercase text on a line — a heading, so to speak.

KEYWORD-1
some text
KEYWORD-2

Thanks in advance.

By: charlie

charlie — Sat, 22 May 2010 01:43:00 +0000

In reply to Satts.

Password protected pdf’s is an open issue for pdf reader – http://github.com/yob/pdf-reader/issues#issue/1

By: Satts

Satts — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:32:53 +0000

Will PDF Reader open password protected files if you can supply the password