react-pdftotext

Light-weight memory-safe client library for extracting plain text from pdf files.

Installing

Using npm:

``js
npm install react-pdftotext
`

Example

Local File Input

Now add a input tag with type="file" to take file input.

`html

`

Import the pdf2text function from package

`js
import pdfToText from "react-pdftotext";

function extractText(event) {
const file = event.target.files[0];
pdfToText(file)
.then((text) => console.log(text))
.catch((error) => console.error("Failed to extract text from pdf"));
}
`

Remote PDF File Input

For Pdf files stored at remote locations

`js
import pdfToText from 'react-pdftotext'

const pdf_url = "REMOTE_PDF_URL"

function extractText() {
const file = await fetch(pdf_url)
.then(res => res.blob())
.catch(error => console.error(error))

pdfToText(file)
.then(text => console.log(text))
.catch(error => console.error("Failed to extract text from pdf"))
}
``

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions.