YOUR PDF TOOLS 🛠️

Your PDF Tools help you to convert your pdf to images or text or both. Super usefull package to play with your pdf.

1. PDF to Image
2. PDF to Text

Follow these steps to install

Installation ⚙️

npm i your-pdf-tools

✋🏻🛑 Please make sure your system has Poppler installed

Usage

PDF to image

const { PDFToImg, PDFToText } = require("your-pdf-tools");
const path = require("path");

const filePath = path.join(__dirname, "your_pdf_name.pdf");
const yourOutPutDir = path.join(__dirname, "./your_pdf_path");

// PDF to Image only (each image will represent each page of the PDF)
const pdfToimg = new PDFToImg({
  file: filePath,// 🆘required!
  format: "png", // 🆘required! png, jpeg, tiff or svg
  prefix: "your_image",
  outputdirectory: yourOutPutDir, // the directory where you want to save the pdf pages
  callback: cb, // 🆘required! the callback function loaded with results
  remove: false, // set to true if want to remove all your pdf page from temporary directory 🚨 Recommended true
});

pdfToimg.toImg(); // nature is asynchronous

Alternate approach
-------------------
async function name(){
    await pdfToimg.toImg();
}

PDF to text

const pdftotext = new PDFToText({
  file: filePath,// 🆘required!
  format: "png",// 🆘required! png, jpeg, tiff or svg
  prefix: "your_image",
  outputdirectory: outputDir,// the directory where you want to save the pdf pages
  callback: cb,
  language: 'eng',// 🆘required! the pdf language
  remove: true, // set to true if want to remove all your pdf page from temporary directory 🚨 Recommended true
});

pdftotext.toText();// nature is asynchronous

Alternate approach
-------------------
async function name(){
    await pdftotext.toText();
}

Output

PDF to Image

{
    status: boolean;
    msg: string;
    error: any; 
    name: string;
}

PDF to Text

{
    status: boolean; 
    msg: string | Array<string>;  // Array<string> page wise all text
    error: any;
}

if you have outputdirectory defined your will get pages of the pdf like-

if your pdf name is your_pdf.pdf you will get

1. your_pdf-1.png,
2. your_pdf-2.png ... as image(s)

Supported Language

1. NodeJS

Thank you

I have used these libraries --

1. Tesseract.js
2. pdftoimage