fagbokforlaget / pdfiijs

A pdf to inverted index in js

pdfiijs

PDF inverted index generator for node.

Creates inverted index from PDF file. The text inverted index generator is based on textiijs.

Requirements

This package is based on two other packages: pdftotext and pdfinfo. They both depend on pdftotext and pdfinfo being a part of poppler-utils.

To install poppler-utils follow the instructions:

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 pdfiijs

Usage

var pdfii = require('pdfiijs');

var pii = new pdfii('./sample.pdf');

pii.get(function(err, data) {
  if(err) {
    return console.log("Error: " + err);
  }
  console.log(data);
});

Tests

$ make test

Coverage report

$ make test-cov