A text extractor for extracting text from HTML, PDF, Image and other files.
- HTML, use html-to-text
- PDF, use pdfjs
- Image (PNG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, ICO, SVG). Use tesseract.js for OCR.
- ... and more to come
npm install text-extractorsCommonJS
const { fromUrl, fromBufferWithMimeType, fromBuffer } = require('text-extractors');
// fromUrl
const text = await fromUrl('https://www.digital.go.jp/assets/contents/node/basic_page/field_ref_resources/d6cfdcdd-75e4-460c-9ec0-af4f952e03d5/20210906_meeting_promoting_01.pdf');
// fromBufferWithMimeType
const text = await fromBufferWithMimeType(buffer, 'image/png');
// fromBuffer
const text = await fromBuffer(buffer);ES6
import { fromUrl, fromBufferWithMimeType, fromBuffer } from 'text-extractors';- [ ] Add support for more file types
- [ ] Add support for options passed to the underlying libraries