Can I read PDF or Word Docs with Node.js?

Question

I can\'t find any packages to do this. I know PHP has a ton of libraries for PDFs (like http://www.fpdf.org/) but anything for Node?

Answer 1

Here is an example showing how to download and extract text from a PDF using PDF.js:

import _ from 'lodash';
import superagent from 'superagent';
import pdf from 'pdfjs-dist';

const url = 'http://unec.edu.az/application/uploads/2014/12/pdf-sample.pdf';

const main = async () => {
  const response = await superagent.get(url).buffer();
  const data = response.body;
  const doc = await pdf.getDocument({ data });
  for (const i of _.range(doc.numPages)) {
    const page = await doc.getPage(i + 1);
    const content = await page.getTextContent();
    for (const { str } of content.items) {
      console.log(str);
    }
  }
};

main().catch(error => console.error(error));