pdf-parse

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Cross-platform TypeScript/JavaScript module extracting text, embedded images, tables, and document metadata/outline from PDFs, plus rendering pages to PNG screenshots — a broader capability set than most JS PDF-parsing libraries, which typically stop at plain text. A complete rewrite under new maintainership (mehmet-kozan) since the original gitlab.com/autokent/pdf-parse went unmaintained, actively published through late 2025.

Complete rewrite under new maintainership since the original went unmaintained; a fork of the old codebase (`pdf-parse-fork`) is a separate, unrelated npm package.

Sample Results

Real output from running this tool against a sample PDF, as part of PDFog's open-source PDF tooling benchmark.

Input: sample-brochure.pdf

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node ./tests/pdf-parse-javascript.js "sample-brochure.pdf" "sample-brochure--pdf-parse-javascript.txt" text

Output: sample-brochure--pdf-parse-javascript.txt

$1,000,000
221 Queen Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
apartment 2 1 1
Prince Cascading
1234-5678
Additional Information
Land Size
House Size
Map Ref.
Energy Rating
Council Rates
Water Rates
1171m2
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WARM BEAUTIFUL APARTMENT
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc turpis ante, fermentum ac
cursus vitae, tempus vel ipsum. Proin justo lorem, mattis sed pharetra ac, vehicula
tincidunt sem. Mauris est leo, scelerisque at gravida vel, interdum quis felis. Nullam
nibh magna, consectetur eu aliquet ac, sollicitudin eget nisl. Praesent nibh tellus,
elementum ut scelerisque a, pretium eget libero. Morbi sodales tincidunt turpis et
sagittis. Aenean sed dictum nisi.
Phasellus quis metus lectus. Donec varius pellentesque purus, et ornare enim
pellentesque sed. Morbi quam augue, pulvinar sit amet mollis in, euismod porta orci.
Quisque rutrum egestas enim ac viverra. Mauris blandit tristique feugiat. Ut molestie
molestie turpis sed elementum. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
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getTable(): confirmed genuinely detects real tables (not a stub) — see tests/pdf-parse-javascript.js's header comment.

node ./tests/pdf-parse-javascript.js "sample-brochure.pdf" "sample-brochure--pdf-parse-javascript--tables.json" tables

Output: sample-brochure--pdf-parse-javascript--tables.json

[
  {
    "num": 1,
    "tables": []
  }
]