file-to-text

A utility to extract text out of a file. Currently supports the following file types as input and plain text as output.

• TXT
• CSV
• HTML
• CSS
• JS
• DOCX
• JSON
• PDF

Installation

Go to the root of your project directory and run the following command.

pnpm add file-to-text

Usage

'use client'

import { fileToText } from 'file-to-text'

export default function Page() {
  const [text, setText] = useState('')

  async function handleFileChange(event: ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) {
    if (!event.target.files || event.target.files.length === 0) return

    const file = event.target.files[0]
    const fileText = await fileToText(file)

    if (fileText) setText(fileText)
  }

  return (
    <div>
      <input type='file' accept='text/*, application/pdf' onChange={handleFileChange} />
      {text}
    </div>
  )
}

Contributing

If you're interested in contributing, please read the contributing docs before submitting a pull request.

License

This package is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.