This is a fork of pdf-text-extract

It functions identically to pdf-text-extract (aside from, you know,
outputing HTML instead of plain text), so the original README
has be preserved below. Just imagine pdf-html-extract in place of
pdf-text-extract, pdftohtml in place of pdftotext and so on.

PDF Text Extract

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

 

Installation

``bash
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

As a module

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


If needed you can pass an optional arguments to the extract function. These will be passed to the command

`javascript
var filePath = path.join(__dirname, 'test/data/multipage.pdf')
var extract = require('pdf-text-extract')
var options = {
cwd: "./"
}
extract(filePath, options, function (err, pages) {
if (err) {
console.dir(err)
return
}
console.dir('extracted pages', pages)
})
`

As a command line tool

`bash
npm install -g pdf-text-extract
`

Execute with the filePath as an argument. Output will be json-formatted array of pages

`bash
pdf-text-extract ./test/data/multipage.pdf


outputs

['', '']

`

Test

``bash

install dev dependencies

npm install

run tests

npm test