pdf-gold-digger

Pdf information extraction library based on pdf.js and node.js.

Install

npm install -g pdf-gold-digger

Usage

pdfdig -i some_file.pdf for help use :
pdfdig -h

ex. pdfdig -i input-file -o output_directory -f json
  
  --input  or  -i   pdf file location (required)
  --output or  -o   pdf file location (optional default "out")
  --debug  or  -d   show debug information (optional - default "false")
  --format or  -f   format (optional - default "text") - ("text,json"): 
  --help   or  -h   display this help message

Documentation url

pdf-gold-digger

or test by clonning repository

git clone https://github.com/vane/pdf-gold-digger
then run
sh demo.sh
and see results in out directory

Work in progress

Supports:

• extract text
  • separate each page
  • separate each line
  • separate font information
  • bounding box position (probably buggy now)
• extract images
• output to text -f text (default)
• output to json -f json
• specify output directory

TODO:

• load pdf from remote location
  • from url
• output to xml format
• output to html format
• output to zip
• extract font
• extract tables
• advanced font information
• extract forms
• extract drawings