I am new to the ROR and just got stucked into something.... ....that is i have to scan a word document through ruby... Please suggest me how to do......
googling for ruby parse microsoft word yields some hits that might be of help, but it is not going to be easy.
Or have you already rejected those suggestions?
Colin
Check out https://github.com/kete/convert_attachment_to.
It relies on command line utilities to do the conversions.
It has two caveats:
* it hasn't been used with Rails 3 or above and therefore you may need to fork it to make it work * when it was written the utilities didn't support .doc-x files, you might need to update it to do that
Cheers, Walter
catdoc?
If you are dropping down to the utility level, docvert is more heavyweight, but handles more cases (including doc-x):
https://github.com/holloway/docvert
I'll probably at it to convert_attachement_to at some point as an option.
Cheers, Walter
If you are dropping down to the utility level, docvert is more heavyweight, but handles more cases (including doc-x):
https://github.com/holloway/docvert
I’ll probably at it to convert_attachement_to at some point as an option.
Cheers,
Walter
That’s for python… or is there somethiing I’m missing here 
If you are dropping down to the utility level, docvert is more heavyweight, but handles more cases (including doc-x):
https://github.com/holloway/docvert
I’ll probably at it to convert_attachement_to at some point as an option.
Cheers,
Walter
That’s for python… or is there somethiing I’m missing here
Is there a way to read a doc/pdf that is uploaded to my rails app?
using a gem or something?
Javier
Is that not what this whole thread has been about?
Colin