PDF.js Compatibility

Note

pdfjs-serverless is currently built from PDF.js v5.2.133.

Installation

# pnpmpnpm add -D pdfjs-serverless# npmnpm install -D pdfjs-serverless# yarnyarn add -D pdfjs-serverless

Usage

Tip

For common operations, such as extracting text content or images from PDF files, you can use theunpdf package. It is a wrapper aroundpdfjs-serverless and provides a simple API for common use cases.

- import { getDocument } from 'pdfjs-dist'+ import { getDocument } from 'pdfjs-serverless'

Examples

🌩 Cloudflare Workers

exportdefault{asyncfetch(request){if(request.method!=='POST')returnnewResponse('Method Not Allowed',{status:405})const{ getDocument}=awaitimport('pdfjs-serverless')// Get the PDF file from the POST request body as a bufferconstdata=awaitrequest.arrayBuffer()constdocument=awaitgetDocument({data:newUint8Array(data),useSystemFonts:true,}).promise// Get metadata and initialize output objectconstmetadata=awaitdocument.getMetadata()constoutput={      metadata,pages:[]}// Iterate through each page and fetch the text contentfor(leti=1;i<=document.numPages;i++){constpage=awaitdocument.getPage(i)consttextContent=awaitpage.getTextContent()constcontents=textContent.items.map(item=>item.str).join(' ')// Add page content to outputoutput.pages.push({pageNumber:i,content:contents})}// Return the results as JSONreturnnewResponse(JSON.stringify(output),{headers:{'Content-Type':'application/json'}})}}

🦕 Deno

import{getDocument}from'https://esm.sh/pdfjs-serverless'constdata=Deno.readFileSync('sample.pdf')constdocument=awaitgetDocument({  data,useSystemFonts:true,}).promiseconsole.log(awaitdocument.getMetadata())// Iterate through each page and fetch the text contentfor(leti=1;i<=document.numPages;i++){constpage=awaitdocument.getPage(i)consttextContent=awaitpage.getTextContent()constcontents=textContent.items.map(item=>item.str).join(' ')console.log(contents)}

How It Works

Inspiration

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