How to Extract Text from a PDF Document Using JavaScript & Express.js

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[kenmaro-prototyping]

bro, you real saved my day, I was struggling using NestJS and extract text from pdf from frontend. I was using pdfjs-dist, but I was having ES-module, CommonJS module issues.
Again, cheers bro!!

[justgary]

You are an absolute legend. Thanks so much for this tutorial!

[luistorresg.]

thx a lot . It is working with pdf table...now i have to read more the code to understand it, Subscribed

[caetanocosta]

Great man, I did this route, and it's ok

[qaengineerfp]

Thanks for such detailed tutorial, very helpful. I have a question, what if in the displayed result in the text box I want to bold the first 2-3 letters of each word or if a word is longer like maybe 10 letters then maybe turn first 4-5 letters bold? Please let me know how can I do that. I have tried googling it a lot. Thanks

[erickgeneric]

This is exactly what I needed. Subscribed - thank you.

[narvekarkanesh]

great video got to learn a lot, am working on a similar project to extract words from pdf to fill the form automatically for eg: a resume. I would love to hear your expertise on this

[caetanocosta]

I would like other route, download the PDF in <li>Lines here...</li> it's possible??? Could you help me???

[djangodeveloper]

looks great. can we do only in JS not framework. ?

[zachfenton]

Looks like a great project, would like to add in saving the text. Also could it extract pictures too?

[rajgupta]

Is this can work for image on pdf too ?

[checkingemails]

are we able to keep the source formatting ?

[thershutj]

is there something like pdf parse for word documents and powerpoint documents?

[lipecanad]

There is no way to do the same thing completely on the client side, correct?

[nicxs_assassin]

What's the vs code theme you've used?

[binaqlanaqlany]

لو سمحت ما اسم برنامج المتصفح الذي تستخدمه المحتوي على console, filter

[jameswan]

I think those can be done in client side

[mathhenker]

Mine is having cors problems, should it be?

[gautamk]

when i am trying to run the code with node index.js, it returns Module not found in terminal and localhost server is not working please

[strangelight]

Can I extract the text on the front end?