PDF Services for Ruby

This gem provides a Ruby wrapper for the Adobe PDF Services API. It allows you to perform various PDF operations, such as extracting content from PDFs, OCR, HTML to PDF, and document generation.

1. Add the gem to your gemfile:

gem "adobe_pdfservices_ruby"

2. Run bundle install

The PdfServices::Client class allows you to perform various PDF operations, such as extracting content from PDFs. The client supports real-time updates on the operation status and retrieves the resulting file upon completion. Below is an example of how to use the client to extract content from a PDF file:

require 'adobe_pdfservices_ruby'

# Initialize the client with your credentials
client = PdfServices::Client.new('your_client_id', 'your_client_secret')

# Path to the PDF file you want to extract content from
source_pdf = 'path/to/your/pdf/file.pdf'

# Set the options for your operation
options = { extract_elements: ['text', 'tables'] }

# Perform the operation with real-time status updates
client.extract_pdf(source_pdf, options) do |status, file|
  if status == 'in progress'
    puts "Current status: #{status}"
  elsif status == 'done'
    puts "Extraction complete! The resulting file is ready for download."
    # Process or save the resulting file
    File.open('extracted_result.pdf', 'w') { |f| f.write(file) }
  else
    puts "Current status: #{status}"
  end
end

# Perform the operation and only retrieve the resulting file
file = client.extract_pdf(source_pdf, options)

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test 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 the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Work is in progress on getting the gem to support all of the operations available in the Adobe PDF Services API. Below is a list of the operations and their current support status:

• ✅ Extract PDF
• ✅ OCR
  • ✅ Internal
  • ❗ EXPERIMENTAL: External
• ✅ HTML to PDF
  • ✅ Internal
  • ❗ EXPERIMENTAL: External
• ✅ Document Generation:
  • ✅ Internal
  • ❗ EXPERIMENTAL: External

The parameters for each method are listed in the Adobe PDF Services API documentation. The parameters are passed to the methods as a hash.

For most operations that rely on a file as the first parameter, this can either be the path to the file or a File object.

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

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

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