You could use the win32ole library and read them yourself via OLE.

On 4/22/06, Mateo Barraza <mateo.barraza / gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm fairly new to the Ruby scene.
> Is there any library that can read MS Word (.doc) files and extract the pure
> text...what about libs for PDF files?
>
> Thanks folks,
>
> M.
>
>


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