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Pure javascript cross-platform module to extract text from PDFs.


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What is pdf-parse?

The pdf-parse npm package is a simple and effective tool for extracting text and metadata from PDF files. It can be used to parse PDF files and retrieve their content in a structured format, making it useful for various applications such as data extraction, text analysis, and document processing.

What are pdf-parse's main functionalities?

Extract Text from PDF

This feature allows you to extract the text content from a PDF file. The code sample reads a PDF file from the filesystem and uses the pdf-parse package to extract and print the text content.

const fs = require('fs');
const pdf = require('pdf-parse');

let dataBuffer = fs.readFileSync('example.pdf');

pdf(dataBuffer).then(function(data) {
    console.log(data.text); // Print the text content of the PDF
});

Extract Metadata from PDF

This feature allows you to extract metadata from a PDF file. The code sample reads a PDF file from the filesystem and uses the pdf-parse package to extract and print the metadata information such as title, author, and creation date.

const fs = require('fs');
const pdf = require('pdf-parse');

let dataBuffer = fs.readFileSync('example.pdf');

pdf(dataBuffer).then(function(data) {
    console.log(data.info); // Print the metadata of the PDF
});

Extract Text and Metadata from PDF

This feature allows you to extract both text content and metadata from a PDF file. The code sample reads a PDF file from the filesystem and uses the pdf-parse package to extract and print both the text content and metadata information.

const fs = require('fs');
const pdf = require('pdf-parse');

let dataBuffer = fs.readFileSync('example.pdf');

pdf(dataBuffer).then(function(data) {
    console.log(data.text); // Print the text content of the PDF
    console.log(data.info); // Print the metadata of the PDF
});

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Package last updated on 24 Oct 2018

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