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pdf.js-extract

extracts text from PDF files

This is just a library packaged out of the examples for usage of pdf.js with nodejs.

It reads a pdf file and exports all pages & texts with coordinates. This can be e.g. used to extract structured table data.

This package includes a single file build of pdf.js, so it does not depend on other npm packages any more.

Note: NO OCR!

Install

Convenience API

    var PDFExtract = require('pdf.js-extract').PDFExtract;
    var pdfExtract = new PDFExtract();
    var options = {}; /* options are handed over to pdf.js e.g, { password: 'somepassword' } */
    pdfExtract.extract(filename, options , function (err, data) {
        if (err) return console.log(err);
        console.log(data);
    });

Example Output

{
    "filename": "helloworld.pdf",
    "meta": {
        "info": {
            "PDFFormatVersion": "1.7",
            "IsAcroFormPresent": false,
            "IsXFAPresent": false
        },
        "metadata": null
    },
    "pages": [
        {
            "pageInfo": {
                "num": 1,
                "scale": 1,
                "rotation": 0,
                "offsetX": 0,
                "offsetY": 0,
                "width": 200,
                "height": 200,
                "fontScale": 1
            },
            "content": [
                {
                    "x": 70,
                    "y": 150,
                    "str": "Hello, world!",
                    "dir": "ltr",
                    "width": 64.656,
                    "height": 12,
                    "fontName": "Times"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pdfInfo": {
        "numPages": 1,
        "fingerprint": "1ee9219eb9eaa49acbfc20155ac359c3",
        "encrypted": false
    }
}

TODO

docu: utils for table parsing