pdf-worker-package

PDF Worker Package

A simple and robust PDF text extraction utility using pdfjs-dist. This package provides an easy-to-use interface for extracting text content from PDF files.

Installation

npm install pdf-worker-package

Usage

import { processPDF } from 'pdf-worker-package';

// Example with Node.js
import * as fs from 'fs';

async function extractPDFText() {
  try {
    // Read the PDF file
    const pdfBuffer = fs.readFileSync('path/to/your/file.pdf');
    
    // Process the PDF and get the text
    const text = await processPDF(pdfBuffer);
    
    console.log('Extracted text:', text);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Error processing PDF:', error);
  }
}

// Example with browser
async function extractPDFTextFromFile(file: File) {
  try {
    const arrayBuffer = await file.arrayBuffer();
    const text = await processPDF(arrayBuffer);
    console.log('Extracted text:', text);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Error processing PDF:', error);
  }
}

API

processPDF(pdfData: ArrayBuffer): Promise<string>

Processes a PDF file and extracts its text content.

• pdfData: The PDF file as an ArrayBuffer
• Returns: A promise that resolves to the extracted text
• Throws: Error if PDF processing fails

Error Handling

The package includes robust error handling for common PDF processing issues:

• Worker initialization failures
• Invalid PDF files
• Processing errors

🔗 Related

• 👉 Need to clean and normalize text before embedding it?
  Check out text-prep-lite

• 👉 Need word embeddings for semantic analysis?
  Check out wink-embeddings-small-en-50d

License

MIT thegreatbey