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PDF Text Extract

Extract text from pdfs that contain searchable pdf text. The module calls the pdftotext command to perform the actual extraction

Installation

npm install pdf-text-extract

You will need the pdftotext binary available on your path. There are packages available for many different operating systems

See https://github.com/nisaacson/pdf-extract#osx for how to install the pdftotext command

Usage

var filePath = path.join(__dirname, 'test/pdf')
var extract = require('pdf-text-extract')
extract(filePath, function (err, pages) {
  if (err) {
    console.dir(err)
    return
  }
  console.dir('extracted pages', pages)
})

The output will be an array of where each entry is a page of text. If you want just a string of all pages you can do pages.join(' ')

Test

# install dev dependencies
npm install
# run tests
npm test