Pdf::Reader::Markup

A markup extension for the PDF::Reader library.

As well as continuing to support fetching a collection of lines for an individual page in a PDF file, this adds the method formatted_lines which uses HTML-style tags to mark up bold and italic text.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'pdf-reader-markup'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install pdf-reader-markup

Require the gem in the source file that contains the PDF-handling code:

require 'pdf/reader/markup'

You should now be able to use the custom MarkupPage handler to get back matching plaintext and formatted lines for each page:

pdf = PDF::Reader.new("./spec/sample docs/Dorian_Gray_excerpt.pdf")
page = PDF::Reader::MarkupPage.new(pdf.pages[1])

# slightly modified version of the lines() method 
lines_of_plaintext = page.lines()

#the new formatted_line() method
lines_with_markup = page.formatted_lines()

# and not forgetting content() which will return the all the lines as
# a solid block of text
entire_page_text = page.content()

# and its formatted equivalent markup
entired_page_markup = page.markup()

Note that you can still access the original PDF::Reader methods within the same project by using PDF::Reader::PageTextReceiver and walking the page, giving access to the standard content and lines as functionality.

You can also, if you prefer, use the Reader::MarkupPage::PageBoldItalicReceiver receiver directly rather than using the PDF::Reader::MarkupPage wrapper.