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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 11, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/extracting-html/137306 "2008-05-11T20:45:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:**  [@flawkes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/flawkes)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/extracting-html/137306/1 "2008-05-11T20:45:04Z")
Hi!
I have a problem, and I can’t find the solution.
I’m developing an app, (with ruby on rails) and I’m trying to create a
PDF with some information that I have in my database.
The situation is the next one: In my database I have some fields that
contains HTML source, that text it was added using FCKeditor. And now
I’m trying to built a PDF using PDF::Writer, but the problem that I have
is when I’m trying to insert my text in the PDF appears (as is logical)
the HTML tags. My question is… Is there any function/plugin that
allows me to skip that source? Or convert from HTML to Text?
Thank you very much for your time.
Jordi
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**Author:**  [@flawkes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/flawkes)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/extracting-html/137306/2 "2008-05-11T20:51:23Z")
require ‘hpricot’
doc=Hpricot(“
# Hello World
”)
doc.inner\_text
=\> “Hello World”
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**Author:**  [@flawkes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/flawkes)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/extracting-html/137306/3 "2008-05-11T21:21:22Z")
Dan D. wrote:
> require ‘hpricot’
>
> doc=Hpricot(“
>
> # Hello World
> ”)
> doc.inner\_text
> =\> “Hello World”
Hi!! Thanks a lot for your answer. I’m a newbie and I still need to
learn a lot from Ruby and his libraries…
It worked fine!! And now, I will deep a bit in this library, because I
suppose that with that one, I will be able to save some tags for my PDF
code, isn’t it? (For example, bold, underline…).
Thanks again for your answer! 🙂