Class: Utilities::PdfSplitter

Inherits:
BaseService
  • Object
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Defined in:
app/services/utilities/pdf_splitter.rb

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#process(pdf_path, output_directory: nil) ⇒ Object

Splits a pdf into individual pages, if an output directory is specified the
splitted files are outputted there, otherwise a temporary file is used
Please note that temporary files are automatically cleaned when ruby exits
or the class is garbage collected



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# File 'app/services/utilities/pdf_splitter.rb', line 6

def process(pdf_path, output_directory: nil)

  output_directory ||= Dir.tmpdir()
  master_pdf = PdfCombinator.new
  master_pdf.load(pdf_path)
  return [pdf_path] if master_pdf.pages.size == 1
  i = 0
  pdf_paths = []
  master_pdf.pages.each do |pdf_page|
    pdf = PdfCombinator.new
    pdf << pdf_page
    file_base_name = File.basename(pdf_path, '.pdf')
    file_path_out = nil
    file_path_out = "#{output_directory}/#{file_base_name}_#{i}.pdf"
    pdf.save file_path_out
    pdf_paths << file_path_out
    i += 1
  end
  pdf_paths
end