Light-weight memory-safe client library for extracting plain text from pdf files.
Using npm:
npm install react-pdftotextLocal File Input
Now add a input tag with type="file" to take file input.
<input type="file" accept="application/pdf" onChange={extractText} />Import the pdf2text function from package
import pdfToText from "react-pdftotext";
function extractText(event) {
const file = event.target.files[0];
pdfToText(file)
.then((text) => console.log(text))
.catch((error) => console.error("Failed to extract text from pdf"));
}Remote PDF File Input
For Pdf files stored at remote locations
import pdfToText from 'react-pdftotext'
const pdf_url = "REMOTE_PDF_URL"
function extractText() {
const file = await fetch(pdf_url)
.then(res => res.blob())
.catch(error => console.error(error))
pdfToText(file)
.then(text => console.log(text))
.catch(error => console.error("Failed to extract text from pdf"))
}This project welcomes contributions and suggestions.
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