stylder / pdftojson

This **API REST** is developed using **ExpressJS** to parse **pdf** files to **json**.

ExpressJS server pdf to Json

Description

This API REST is developed using ExpressJS to parse pdf files to json.

Architecture

This API REST uses this technology:

• ExpressJS: to create API REST.
• NodeJS: to create API REST infrastructure with Express.
• pdfjs-dist: This is a pre-built version of the PDF.js source code. It is automatically generated by the build scripts.
• exceljs: Read, manipulate and write spreadsheet data and styles to XLSX and JSON.

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Install and run

Follow this steps to install and run this project:

1. Install NodeJS in your server.
2. Download this project.
3. Execute npm start command into project folder.
4. Now a webservice is running on port 8080 (by default).

Usage: POST

You can access to all fields using next syntax:

• Parse: http://localhost:8080/pdf

• Parse: http://localhost:8080/xml

• HealthCheck: http://localhost:8080/

Docker

Build Image

docker build -t pdf-xml-parse .

Run image

docker run --name pdf-xml-parse -p 8080:8080 -d pdf-xml-parse

Demo