Spreadsheet vs Yomu

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Spreadsheet		Yomu
	Project
1	Mentions	1
1,121	Stars	489
-	Growth	0.2%
5.2	Activity	0.0
3 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Spreadsheet

Posts with mentions or reviews of Spreadsheet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

I need help..an old firm has cobol system with terminals, is there a way to extract data in that to Excell or anything?
1 project | /r/cobol | 8 Dec 2022

"spreadsheet" to write to Excel. See https://rubygems.org/gems/spreadsheet

Yomu

Posts with mentions or reviews of Yomu. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

converting text files to plain text.
1 project | /r/ruby | 8 Jul 2023

Yomu sounds like what you're looking for. However, it depends on Apache Tika. It's more or less a wrapper. This is a big lift though, so I don't think you'll find a native Ruby library for something like this.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Spreadsheet and Yomu you can also consider the following projects:

Roo - Roo provides an interface to spreadsheets of several sorts.

Docsplit - Break Apart Documents into Images, Text, Pages and PDFs

AXLSX - xlsx generation with charts, images, automated column width, customizable styles and full schema validation. Axlsx excels at helping you generate beautiful Office Open XML Spreadsheet documents without having to understand the entire ECMA specification. Check out the README for some examples of how easy it is. Best of all, you can validate your xlsx file before serialization so you know for sure that anything generated is going to load on your client's machine.

rubyXL - Ruby lib for reading/writing/modifying .xlsx and .xlsm files

write_xlsx - Rubygem for create excel xlsx file

Creek - Ruby library for parsing large Excel files.

Fastsheet - Fast XLSX reader for ruby

docx - a ruby library/gem for interacting with .docx files