PDF text extraction in TypeScript
npm install pdf-tspdf-ts is a TypeScript library for PDF text extraction. It uses Mozilla's PDF.js to expose a simple API for text extraction.
``shell`
npm i pdf-ts
Extract text from a PDF.
`ts`
import {pdfToText} from 'pdf-ts';
const pdf = await fs.readFile('./path/to/file.pdf');
const text = await pdfToText(pdf);
console.log(text);
Extract a list of pages from a PDF.
`ts``
import {pdfToPages} from 'pdf-ts';
const pdf = await fs.readFile('./path/to/file.pdf');
const pages = await pdfToPages(pdf);
console.log(pages); // [{page: 1, text: '...'}, {page: 2, text: '...'}, ...]