Converting PDF To Text From Node.Js In Memory

[Joseph Koziatek]

Hello all,

Is there a way to convert an in memory binary string (pdf content) to text from within node.js?
I receive pdf content through a web request and have the pdf in memory as a string object.
I see there are many tools available that operate from system calls but I was wondering
if there is anything to convert the pdf totally in memory without spawning a system call..

Thanks In Advance

Joe

[Matt]

The short answer is no, there isn't. But you can do it streaming through child processes (i.e. without writing anything to disk).

The longer answer is you can probably do something with a lot of work using node-ffi, but it probably won't be worth the effort.

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[Floby]

There's this article about using node.js to parse PDFs

http://www.garysieling.com/blog/parsing-pdfs-at-scale-with-node-js-pdf-js-and-lunr-js

You may also be interested in https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/ even though it is meant to run in the browser