error: undefined method `ascent'

[fredcallaway]

error: undefined method `ascent' for #<PDF::Reader::Font:0x007ff94483b130>. Use --trace to view backtrace

Happens for all calls of pdf-extract. This installation error may be relevant:

Parsing documentation for libsvm-ruby-swig-0.4.0
unable to convert "\xCA" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for ext/libsvm.bundle, skipping
unable to convert "\xCA" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for ext/libsvm_wrap.o, skipping
unable to convert "\xCA" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for ext/svm.o, skipping
unable to convert "\xCA" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for lib/libsvm-ruby-swig/libsvm.bundle, skipping
Installing ri documentation for libsvm-ruby-swig-0.4.0

Thanks for any help anyone can provide!

[osearbhain]

Seems to be a duplicate of #17. The installation error looks worrying alright, I didn't get that. I installed on Linux Mint 17.1 with no errors.

[bliaxiong]

Getting the same error on Mac OSX 10.9.5

[derickfay]

me too - with the same installation error on Mac OS X 10.10.3

[jgrossi]

Hi @fredcallaway! Try to remove your actual pdf-reader installation:

gem uninstall pdf-reader

... and install pdf-reader version 1.2.0 (without this issue):

gem install pdf-reader -v 1.2.0

This should solve your problem :-)

[DarrenN]

@jgrossi that indeed solved the problem

[jgrossi]

that's nice @DarrenN ;-)

[deepseven]

That solved the problem for me too, thanks!

[jgrossi]

Awesome @deepseven :-)