Inkscape has a command line conversion option. I've only used it with a Linux instance. It converts one page at a time though. More than thee output format options from memory. Not exactly pure Ruby approach, though scripting such a task is certainly a Ruby domain. Your example is still loading here. So this reply may be completely out of context. MarkT > I have to extract some data from a paper in a pdf format. I just need > some data from the page 1, like the title of the paper, the authors > list, the universities of these autors, their mails, the abstract and > keywords I _top_ _post_ _so_ _there_