SMRTR ProgrammingMay 17, 2025Daily.dev

Getting Answers from a Big PDF with RubyLLM

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A developer created a Ruby-based CLI tool to interact with a large API documentation PDF. Using the RubyLLM gem and Gemini's PDF parsing capabilities, the tool extracts text from specific pages and uses an LLM to answer questions about the API. This approach allows for efficient querying of extensive documentation without repeatedly sending the entire file.

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