unpdf

A collection of utilities to work with PDFs.

unpdf takes advantage of export conditions to provide a minimal bundle size for the browser. As of now, the available methods are only supported in Node contexts.

Why this package then?

• To circumvent build issues in serverless environments, where the canvas package is used by PDF.js not supported.
• WIP and more to come.

Installation

Run the following command to add unpdf to your project.

pnpm install unpdf # or npm or yarn

Usage

import { decodePDFText } from 'unpdf'

const pdfBuffer = await fetch('https://example.com/file.pdf').then(res => res.arrayBuffer())

const { totalPages, info, metadata, text } = await decodePDFText(
  new Uint8Array(pdfBuffer), { mergePages: true }
)

License

MIT License © 2023-PRESENT Johann Schopplich