office-text-extractor/build/parsers/pdf.js

Yet another library to extract text from MS Office and PDF files

// source/parsers/pdf.ts
// The text extracter for PDF files.
import { PDFParse } from 'pdf-parse';
export class PdfExtractor {
    /**
     * The type(s) of input acceptable to this method.
     */
    mimes = ['application/pdf'];
    /**
     * Extract text from a PDF file if possible.
     *
     * @param payload The input and its type.
     * @returns The text extracted from the input.
     */
    apply = async (input) => {
        // Create a new parser and run it on the given input buffer.
        const parser = new PDFParse({ data: input });
        const result = await parser.getText({ parseHyperlinks: true });
        // Clean up the parser and return the text.
        await parser.destroy();
        return result.text;
    };
}