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module Docsplit

  # Include a method to transparently convert non-PDF arguments to temporary
  # PDFs. Allows us to pretend to natively support docs, rtf, ppt, and so on.
  module TransparentPDFs

    # Temporarily convert any non-PDF documents to PDFs before running them
    # through further extraction.
    def ensure_pdfs(docs)
      [docs].flatten.map do |doc|
        ext = File.extname(doc)
        if ext.downcase == '.pdf'
          doc
        else
          @tempdir ||= File.join(Dir.tmpdir, 'docsplit')
          extract_pdf([doc], {:output => @tempdir})
          File.join(@tempdir, File.basename(doc, ext) + '.pdf')
        end
      end
    end

  end

  extend TransparentPDFs

end

Version data entries

6 entries across 6 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
docsplit-0.3.1	lib/docsplit/transparent_pdfs.rb
docsplit-0.3.0	lib/docsplit/transparent_pdfs.rb
docsplit-0.2.0	lib/docsplit/transparent_pdfs.rb
docsplit-0.1.3	lib/docsplit/transparent_pdfs.rb
docsplit-0.1.2	lib/docsplit/transparent_pdfs.rb
docsplit-0.1.1	lib/docsplit/transparent_pdfs.rb