Usage no npm install needed!

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README

Easy PDF Parser

a lightweight, promise style, functional wrapper of pdf2json.

Command Line Tool

npm install -g easy-pdf-parser
pdf2text test.pdf > test.txt

Usage Demo

install:

npm install easy-pdf-parser

extract plain text from pdf easily:

{parsePdf, extractPlainText} = require('easy-pdf-parser')

parsePdf('./test.pdf').then(extractPlainText).then(data => {
  console.log(data);
});

extract simply structured text from pdf:

{parsePdf, extractText} = require('easy-pdf-parser')

parsePdf('./test.pdf').then(extractText).then(data => {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data, '', 2));
});

get a full structured parsing result:

{parsePdf} = require('easy-pdf-parser')

parsePdf('./test.pdf').then(data => {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data, '', 2));
});

More doc about the structure of the parsed result can be found here