@fdocs/pdf


simple light to extract plain text from a pdf file

Features

- 🔥 Easy-to-use
- 🔐 Password Protection:handle password-protected documents.
- 📄 Flexible Page Selection: Process specific pages or the entire document.
- 🚫 Line Skipping: Easily skip unwanted lines from pages.

Install

``console
npm install @fdocs/pdf
`

Usage

`js
import { pdf } from "@fdocs/pdf";

const extractTextFromPDF = async (file) => {
// parse the PDF file
const content = await pdf(file, { pages: "1"});
// example: "1,3-4" or [3,4] or "all", Default is ["1"]

// get the extracted text lines
const lines = content.getText(); // ==> array: text
// const lines = content.getRaw(); ==> object: coordinates (x, y, etc.).
// const lines = content.getPages(); ==> total number pages

console.log(lines); // Output the extracted text
};
extractTextFromPDF("foo.pdf");
`


API

`js
const options = {
pages ? : string | number[] | "all",
password ? : string,
skip?: {
global?: { // Skip lines for all pages
lines?: string | number[],
lastLines?: number,
},
pageSpecific?: {
page: number,
lines?: string | number[],
lastLines?: number,
}[]; // Skip lines for specific pages
text?: {
value: string | RegExp,
match?: "contain" | "startWith" | "regex" | "exact", // Text match type
nextLine?: {
value: string | RegExp,
match: "contain" | "startWith" | "regex" | "exact",
}
}[],
ranges?: {
start: {
value: string | RegExp,
match?: "contain" | "startWith" | "regex" | "exact", // Start match type
},
end: {
value: string | RegExp;
match?: "contain" | "startWith" | "regex" | "exact", // End match type
},
}[],
},
}
`


Example


`js
const extractTextFromPDF = async (file) => {

const content = await pdf(file, {
pages: "all",
skipLinesByText: [{
text: "This document is printed/converted directly from the customer account statement printing system",
type: "contain",
},
{
text: "351",
type: "exact",
},
],
skip: {
ranges: [
{
start: {
value: "I love you",
match: "contain",
},
end: {
value: "I hate you",
match: "contain",
},
},
],
text: [
{
value: /^\(.*\)$/,
match: "regex",
},
],
},

});
// get the extracted text lines
const lines = content.getText(); // ==> array: text
// const lines = content.getRaw(); ==> object: coordinates (x, y, etc.).
// const lines = content.getPages(); ==> total number pages

console.log(lines); // Output the extracted text
}
extractTextFromPDF("foo.pdf")
``

Changelog

Authors

- Nguyễn Tường Hy (@ngtuonghy)

License

This package is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.