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Iguvium Iguvium extracts tables from PDF file in a structured form. It works like this. Take this PDF file: Use this code: pages = Iguvium.read('filename.pdf') tables = pages[1].extract_tables! csv = tables.first

Asciidoctor PDF: A native PDF converter for AsciiDoc Lo and behold, a native PDF converter for AsciiDoc built with Asciidoctor and Prawn! No more middleman. No more DocBook toolchain. It’s Asci

Prawn: Fast, Nimble PDF Generation For Ruby Prawn is a pure Ruby PDF generation library that provides a lot of great functionality while trying to remain simple and reasonably performant. Here are some of the impor

gimli – utility for converting markup to pdf Description Gimli is a utility for converting markup to pdf files. Useful for reports and such things. It’s a developed version of textile2pdf to support multipl

kitabu Kitabu is a framework for creating e-books from Markdown using Ruby. Using Prince PDF generator, you'll be able to get high quality PDFs. Also supports EPUB, Mobi, Text and HTML generation. While Prince is t

wisepdf Wkhtmltopdf wrapper done right. Wisepdf uses the shell utility wkhtmltopdf to serve a PDF file to a user from HTML. In other words, rather than dealing with a PDF generation DSL of some sort, you simply w

Shrimp Creates PDFs from URLs using phantomjs Read our blogpost about how it works. Installation Add this line to your application's Gemfile: gem 'shrimp' And then execute: $ bundle Or install it you

PDFKit Create PDFs using plain old HTML+CSS. Uses wkhtmltopdf on the back-end which renders HTML using Webkit. Install PDFKit gem install pdfkit wkhtmltopdf Install by hand (recom

CombinePDF - the ruby way for merging PDF files CombinePDF is a nifty model, written in pure Ruby, to parse PDF files and combine (merge) them with other PDF files, watermark them or stamp them (all using the PDF fi

Squid Squid helps you write Ruby code to draw graphs in PDF files. The source code is available on GitHub and the documentation on RubyDoc. Prawn is a great Ruby library to generate PDF files but lacks high-lev

Wicked PDF A PDF generation plugin for Ruby on Rails Wicked PDF uses the shell utility wkhtmltopdf to serve a PDF file to a user from HTML. In other words, rather than dealing with a PDF generation DSL of