Pdf Parser

This RubyGem is intended to be used with Adobe XFA/Acroform PDFs and relies heavily on both Nokogiri and Origami.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'pdf-parser'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install pdf-parser

In order to parse a PDF and return it's XML data, you need to use the .parse method.

Pdf::Parser.parse "somedynmaicforms.pdf"

This will return a Nokogiri XML object, which you can then parse using Nokogiri's library.

xml = Pdf::Parser.parse "somedynmaicforms.pdf"

value = xml.xpath("//AttributeName").text

This will return the XML data for the AttributeName so it can be used elsewhere in your app.

If you wish, you can also print the XML to the console by passing an additional arugment, true, when calling the parse method.

xml = Pdf::Parser.parse("somedynmaicforms.pdf", true)

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/jameshamann/pdf-parser. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the Pdf::Parser project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.