# PDF Reader

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-reader/95030>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 11, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-reader/95030 "2006-01-11T16:40:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Chintakrindi\_Meghan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chintakrindi\_Meghan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chintakrindi_Meghan)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-reader/95030/1 "2006-01-11T16:40:17Z")

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Hi

Can we use “rpdf2txt” for the PDF reading ?

Thanks

Meghanath

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**Author:** ![Chintakrindi\_Meghan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chintakrindi\_Meghan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chintakrindi_Meghan)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 7:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-reader/95030/2 "2006-01-11T19:58:32Z")

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Meghanath

With a custom callback-handler, you can get the text out ouf your PDF  
and into your application. That is as long as you need no fancy stuff  
such as rotated text, images, colors, etc. - rpdf2txt is very  
text-centered at the moment.

I’ve attached an example how this might be done. Caveat: you’ll need the  
newest version of rpdf2txt (v. 1.0.4) - I found a couple of issues while  
writing this example…

Cheers  
Hannes

On 1/11/06, Chintakrindi Meghanath