JavaScript PDF Extraction Library

JavaScript PDF Extraction Library

PDFTron JS PDF Extractor benefits include:

Extract digital signatures (timestamps, etc.)

Intuitive page content extraction based on a concept of graphical elements

Use the high-quality and efficient text recognition engine (pdftron.PDF.TextExtractor) TextExtractor to extract structured Unicode text including style and positioning information from any PDF document. The API is simple to use and has numerous advanced options related to hidden or duplicated text, ligature expansion, etc.

Low-level text extraction (including positioning information for text runs and individual characters)

Complete access to the graphics state (for color spaces and colorants, dash properties, etc.)

Full access to fonts, including glyph outlines

Image extraction. All compression filters allowed in PDF are supported and you can extract images in RAW format (optional)

Image color-conversion and normalization filters

Full access to marked content (e.g., used in tagged PDF documents to preserve logical structure or to mark transparency groups)

Full access to page form fields and annotations

Extract embedded fonts, ICC color profiles, U3D streams, embedded files, etc.

Access to a document's metadata

High-level Logical Structure API and support for 'Tagged' PDF documents

Extract and render PDF layers (also known as Optional Content Groups, or OCGs)

JavaScript PDF parsing

PDFTron’s Java PDF Conversion Library is easy to get up and running with popular package managers and a few lines of code.