ffi-extractor

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Ruby FFI bindings to libextractor, a library for extracting metadata from a variety of file formats.

libextractor is a simple library for keyword extraction. libextractor does not support all formats but supports a simple plugging mechanism such that you can quickly add extractors for additional formats, even without recompiling libextractor. libextractor typically ships with a dozen helper-libraries that can be used to obtain keywords from common file-types.

libextractor is a part of the GNU project.

require 'ffi/extractor'

FFI::Extractor.extract(data) do |plugin,type,format,mime_type,data|
  # ...
end

FFI::Extractor.extract_from(path) do |plugin,type,format,mime_type,data|
  # ...
end

• libextractor >= 0.6.0
• ffi ~> 1.0

$ gem install ffi-extractor

• Debian / Ubuntu

  $ sudo apt-get install libextractor-dev libextractor-plugins-all

• RedHat / Fedora

  $ sudo dnf install libextractor-devel libextractor-plugins

• macOS

  $ brew install libextractor

extractor.cr is a Crystal port of this library.

ffi-extractor - Ruby FFI bindings for libextractor

Copyright (c) 2012 - Hal Brodigan (postmodern.mod3 at gmail.com)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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