Yomu VS Roo

Compare Yomu vs Roo and see what are their differences.

Yomu

Read text and metadata from files and documents (.doc, .docx, .pages, .odt, .rtf, .pdf) (by yomurb)

Roo

Roo provides an interface to spreadsheets of several sorts. (by roo-rb)
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Yomu Roo
1 2
489 2,760
0.2% 0.3%
0.0 4.1
about 1 year ago 21 days ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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Yomu

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  • 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.

Roo

Posts with mentions or reviews of Roo. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-14.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

Spreadsheet - The Ruby Spreadsheet by ywesee GmbH

write_xlsx - Rubygem for create excel xlsx file

Creek - Ruby library for parsing large Excel files.

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

Spreadsheet Architect - Spreadsheet Architect is a library that allows you to create XLSX, ODS, or CSV spreadsheets super easily from ActiveRecord relations, plain Ruby objects, or tabular data.

xsv - High performance, lightweight .xlsx parser for Ruby that provides nothing a CSV parser wouldn't