# Text extraction from MS Office and PDF **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [July 24, 2010, 1:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/text-extraction-from-ms-office-and-pdf/192128 "2010-07-24T13:45:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vitali](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@Vitali](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vitali)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 1:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/text-extraction-from-ms-office-and-pdf/192128/1 "2010-07-24T13:45:36Z")
Hello, I’m looking for libraries to do text extraction from MS Office and PDF file formats. Also looking for libraries to do HTML rendering of documents in the same formats. I know of couple of commercial libraries from Oracle and Autonomy, but they only have C and/or Java APIs. I also found this project [POI Ruby Bindings](http://poi.apache.org/poi-ruby.html). Is there other open source alternatives, and/or alternatives with Ruby bindings? Thanks, Vitali ---
**Author:** ![Vitali](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@Vitali](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vitali)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/text-extraction-from-ms-office-and-pdf/192128/2 "2010-07-28T03:34:24Z")
I am using the standard ‘spreadsheet’ library to load from excel 2003 .xls files with ruby. it’s not pretty but it works