barzik / pdftotextjs

pdftohtml nodejs wrapper

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'),
    pdf = new pdftotext('test/pdfs/sample.pdf');

// Convert first page only
// These options will be passed to pdftotext
// You may use any valid option
pdf.add_options(['-f 1', '-l 1']);

pdf.getText(function(err, stdout, stderr) {
  if (err) {
    console.error(stderr);
  else {
    console.log(stdout);
  }
});

Synchronous example

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

var data = pdf.getTextSync(); // returns buffer
console.log(data.toString('utf8'));

Tests

$ npm test

Coverage

$ npm test-cov