github.com/CerviTalotekniikka/pdf

Purpose of the fork

This fork of rsc.io/pdf extends the package API with:

• Implement the method GetPlainText() from object Page. Use to get plain text content (without format)

Installing this fork

In your project, install via go modules:

go get github.com/CerviTalotekniikka/pdf@latest

Release instructions

After making changes, please tag the commit with semantic version prefixed with 'v'

git tag
git tag v0.2.0
git push
git push --tags

How to read all text from PDF:

1. Get the library with command go get -u github.com/ledongthuc/pdf

2. I write an example function to read file from PATH and return the content of PDF

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"

	"github.com/ledongthuc/pdf"
)

func main() {
	content, err := readPdf("test.pdf") // Read local pdf file
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(content)
	return
}

func readPdf(path string) (string, error) {
	r, err := pdf.Open(path)
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}
	totalPage := r.NumPage()

	var textBuilder bytes.Buffer
	for pageIndex := 1; pageIndex <= totalPage; pageIndex++ {
		p := r.Page(pageIndex)
		if p.V.IsNull() {
			continue
		}
		textBuilder.WriteString(p.GetPlainText("\n"))
	}
	return textBuilder.String(), nil
}

How to read all text with styles from PDF

func readPdf2(path string) (string, error) {
	r, err := pdf.Open(path)
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}
	totalPage := r.NumPage()

	for pageIndex := 1; pageIndex <= totalPage; pageIndex++ {
		p := r.Page(pageIndex)
		if p.V.IsNull() {
			continue
		}
		var lastTextStyle pdf.Text
		texts := p.Content().Text
		for _, text := range texts {
			if isSameSentence(text, lastTextStyle) {
				lastTextStyle.S = lastTextStyle.S + text.S
			} else {
				fmt.Printf("Font: %s, Font-size: %f, x: %f, y: %f, content: %s \n", lastTextStyle.Font, lastTextStyle.FontSize, lastTextStyle.X, lastTextStyle.Y, lastTextStyle.S)
				lastTextStyle = text
			}
		}
	}
	return "", nil
}

Demo