title: Ruby: Reading PDF files
body: <p>I'm looking for a fast and reliable way to read/parse large PDF files in Ruby (on Linux and OSX). </p>
  
  <p>Until now I've found the rather old and simple <a href="http://pdf-toolkit.rubyforge.org/" rel="noreferrer">PDF-toolkit</a> (a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftotext" rel="noreferrer">pdftotext</a>-wrapper) and <a href="http://github.com/yob/pdf-reader/tree/master" rel="noreferrer">PDF-reader</a>, which was unable to read most of my files. Though the two libraries provide exactly the functionality I was looking for.</p>
  
  <p>My question: Have I missed something? Is there a tool that is better suited (faster and more reliable) to solve my problem?</p>