node-pdfbox-util

node-pdfbox-util is a library that allows integration and execution of basic functions of Apache PDFBox (https://pdfbox.apache.org/). Apache PDFBox is a Java library for working with PDF documents. It includes an embedded jar with dependencies on:

• commons-logging-1.3.3.jar
• error_prone_annotations-2.27.0.jar
• fontbox-3.0.3.jar
• gson-2.11.0.jar
• pdfbox-3.0.3.jar
• pdfbox-io-3.0.3.jar

The node-pdfbox-util library is developed to facilitate certain actions on PDF documents from a Node.js environment.

Functionalities

• getDocumentText: Extract text from a PDF.
• convertPdfToImage: Convert a PDF page to an image.
• getDocumentInfo: Obtain basic document information.
• splitDocument: Split a PDF into different parts.

Usage Examples

getDocumentText

import { NodePdfBoxUtilsBasic } from 'node-pdfbox-util';

const pdfFilePath = "path/to/pdf.pdf";
const outputFile = ""; // Optional. If specified, the content is stored at the specified path.
const options = {
  buffer: 1, // Optional, default is 1. Specify buffer size, recommended to increase for very large documents.
  pageIndicator: true, // Optional, default is false. If specified, page number will be included in the text.
  responseInPages: true // Optional, default is false. If specified, an array with the text of each page will be returned.
};

NodePdfBoxUtilsBasic.getDocumentText(pdfFilePath, outputFile, options).then((result) => {
  console.log(result);
});

getDocumentInfo

import { NodePdfBoxUtilsBasic } from 'node-pdfbox-util';

const pdfFilePath = "path/to/pdf.pdf";
const options = {
  buffer: 1 // Optional, default is 1. Specify buffer size, recommended to increase for very large documents.
};

NodePdfBoxUtilsBasic.getDocumentInfo(pdfFilePath, options).then((result) => {
  console.log(result);
});

convertPdfToImage

import { NodePdfBoxUtilsBasic } from 'node-pdfbox-util';

const pdfFilePath = "path/to/pdf.pdf";
const fromPage = 1;
const toPage = 1;
const outputFileName = "path/to/output."; // Generated images will have .png extension and a page number at the end of the file name.
const options = {
  dpi: 300, // Optional, default is 200. Specify image resolution.
  toBase64: false // Optional, default is false. If specified, images will be returned as a base64 array.
};

NodePdfBoxUtilsBasic.convertPdfToImage(pdfFilePath, fromPage, toPage, outputFileName, options).then((result) => {
  console.log(result);
});

splitDocument

import { NodePdfBoxUtilsBasic } from 'node-pdfbox-util';

const pdfFilePath = "path/to/pdf.pdf";
const outputPath = "path/to/pdfparts"; // mandatory. a pdf is generated for each part with naming convention "_part_x.pdf"
const options = { 
  startPage: 1, // page to start from 
  numberOfPages: 20,  // number of pages to convert
  recursive: true,  // whether to convert recursively or only the initial range
}

NodePdfBoxUtilsBasic.splitDocument(pdfFilePath, outputPath, options).then((result) => {
  console.log(result);
});

LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2024 Alberto Almansa

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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