pdf2html
pdf2html helps to convert PDF file to HTML or Text using Apache Tika. This module also helps to generate thumbnail image for PDF file using Apache PDFBox.
Installation
via yarn:
yarn add pdf2html
via npm:
npm install --save pdf2html
Java runtime environment (JRE) is required to run this module.
Usage
const pdf2html = require('pdf2html')
pdf2html.html('sample.pdf', (err, html) => {
if (err) {
console.error('Conversion error: ' + err)
} else {
console.log(html)
}
})Convert to text
pdf2html.text('sample.pdf', (err, text) => {
if (err) {
console.error('Conversion error: ' + err)
} else {
console.log(text)
}
})Convert as pages
pdf2html.pages('sample.pdf', (err, htmlPages) => {
if (err) {
console.error('Conversion error: ' + err)
} else {
console.log(htmlPages)
}
})const options = { text: true }
pdf2html.pages('sample.pdf', options, (err, textPages) => {
if (err) {
console.error('Conversion error: ' + err)
} else {
console.log(textPages)
}
})Extra metadata
pdf2html.meta('sample.pdf', (err, meta) => {
if (err) {
console.error('Conversion error: ' + err)
} else {
console.log(meta)
}
})Generate thumbnail
pdf2html.thumbnail('sample.pdf', (err, thumbnailPath) => {
if (err) {
console.error('Conversion error: ' + err)
} else {
console.log(thumbnailPath)
}
})const options = { page: 1, imageType: 'png', width: 160, height: 226 }
pdf2html.thumbnail('sample.pdf', options, (err, thumbnailPath) => {
if (err) {
console.error('Conversion error: ' + err)
} else {
console.log(thumbnailPath)
}
})Manually download dependencies files
Sometimes downloading the dependencies might be too slow or unable to download in a HTTP proxy environment. Follow the step below to skip the dependency downloads.
cd node_modules/pdf2html/vendor
# These URLs come from https://github.com/shebinleo/pdf2html/blob/master/postinstall.js#L6-L7
wget https://dlcdn.apache.org/pdfbox/2.0.26/pdfbox-app-2.0.26.jar
wget https://dlcdn.apache.org/tika/2.3.0/tika-app-2.3.0.jar