pdftotextjs

pdftotextjs - pdftotext shell wrapper for Node.js

pdftotextjs provides access to pdftotext via shell in nodejs. You'll need pdftotext which comes with poppler-utils.

• Ubuntu/Debian sudo apt-get install poppler-utils.
• MacOSX sudo port install poppler or brew install xpdf.
• Windows download and install Xpdf.

Installation

via npm:

$ npm install pdftotextjs

Usage

Asynchronous example

var pdftotext = require('pdftotextjs'),
    ptext = new pdftotext('test/pdfs/sample.pdf');

ptext.success(function(i) {
  console.log(i);
});

ptext.error(function(error) {
  console.log("Error: " + error);
});

ptext.get();

You may also pass callbacks in as object. In that case above can be also re-written as:

var pdftotext = require('pdftotextjs');
var ptext = new pdftotext('test/pdfs/sample.pdf', {
  error: function(e) {
    console.log("Error:" + e);
  },
  success: function(data) {
    console.log(data);
  }
});

ptext.get();

Synchronous example

var pdftotext = require('pdftotextjs'),
    ptext = new pdftotext('test/pdfs/sample.pdf');

var data = ptext.getSync();
console.log(data);

Tests

$ npm test

Coverage (Make sure you have installed jscoverage (it's easy sudo aptitude install jscoverage or brew jscoverage)

$ npm test-cov