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