Top 10 Ruby Spreadsheets and Document Projects

Roo

2 2,760 4.1 Ruby

Roo provides an interface to spreadsheets of several sorts.
AXLSX

1 2,616 0.0 Ruby

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.
InfluxDB

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Spreadsheet Architect

1 1,298 5.5 Ruby

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.
Spreadsheet

1 1,121 5.2 Ruby

The Ruby Spreadsheet by ywesee GmbH
Docsplit

0 831 0.0 Ruby

Break Apart Documents into Images, Text, Pages and PDFs
Yomu

1 489 0.0 Ruby

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

Project mention: converting text files to plain text. | /r/ruby | 2023-07-08

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.

docx

0 417 6.8 Ruby

a ruby library/gem for interacting with .docx files (by ruby-docx)
WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
Creek

0 381 3.8 Ruby

Ruby library for parsing large Excel files.
write_xlsx

1 280 7.5 Ruby

Rubygem for create excel xlsx file
xsv

0 189 6.8 Ruby

High performance, lightweight .xlsx parser for Ruby that provides nothing a CSV parser wouldn't (by martijn)

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-07-08.