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node modules for converting PDFs into other formats

Raw

Wrappers

hummus - c++ pdf manipulator
mimeograph - api on a conglomeration of tools (poppler, tesseract, imagemagick etc)
pdftotextjs - wrapper around pdftotext
pdf-text-extract - another wrapper around pdftotext
pdf-extract - wrapper around pdftotext, pdftk, tesseract, ghostscript
pdfutils - poppler wrapper
scissors - pdftk, ghostscript wrapper w/ high level api
textract - pdftotext wrapper
pdfiijs - pdf to inverted index using textiijs and poppler

Pure JS

pdf2json - pure js pdf to json

rufuspollock commented Jul 6, 2013

This is super useful Max. Do you have any experience what any of these are like esp the pure JS one?

I'm really interested in finding a good node lib for PDF to "machine-readable something" lib and would prefer pure JS (if possible).

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