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Node Pdf to png without system level dependencies
var Canvas = require('canvas');
var assert = require('assert');
var fs = require('fs');
var pdfjsLib = require('pdfjs-dist');
function NodeCanvasFactory() {}
NodeCanvasFactory.prototype = {
create: function NodeCanvasFactory_create(width, height) {
assert(width > 0 && height > 0, 'Invalid canvas size');
var canvas = Canvas.createCanvas(width, height);
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
return {
canvas: canvas,
context: context,
};
},
reset: function NodeCanvasFactory_reset(canvasAndContext, width, height) {
assert(canvasAndContext.canvas, 'Canvas is not specified');
assert(width > 0 && height > 0, 'Invalid canvas size');
canvasAndContext.canvas.width = width;
canvasAndContext.canvas.height = height;
},
destroy: function NodeCanvasFactory_destroy(canvasAndContext) {
assert(canvasAndContext.canvas, 'Canvas is not specified');
// Zeroing the width and height cause Firefox to release graphics
// resources immediately, which can greatly reduce memory consumption.
canvasAndContext.canvas.width = 0;
canvasAndContext.canvas.height = 0;
canvasAndContext.canvas = null;
canvasAndContext.context = null;
},
};
// Relative path of the PDF file.
const toImg = async (pdfData) => {
const pdfDocument = await pdfjsLib.getDocument(new Uint8Array(pdfData)).promise
// Get the first page.
const page = await pdfDocument.getPage(0)
// Render the page on a Node canvas with 100% scale.
const viewport = page.getViewport({ scale: 1.0, });
const canvasFactory = new NodeCanvasFactory();
const canvasAndContext = canvasFactory.create(viewport.width, viewport.height);
const renderContext = { canvasContext: canvasAndContext.context,
viewport: viewport,
canvasFactory: canvasFactory,
};
await page.render(renderContext).promise
return canvasAndContext.canvas.toBuffer();
}
const pdfURL = 'test.pdf';
toImg(fs.readFileSync(pdfURL)).then(buf => process.stdout.write(buf))
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