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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video I will show you a NodeJS
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package which allows you to extract data
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from a PDF file and save it as a txt
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file so the name of the package is PDF-
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psefile PDF so it contains multiple of
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pages right here it contains some text
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so when I run this NodeJS script it will
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extract all the data and actually store
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that data in a txt file so if I run this
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index.js so here we just need to specify
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the output directory sorry
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the PDF file so we simply write here
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bulk file PDF so we provide the path of
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the file and now if I run the NodeJS
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script here so you will see on the left
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hand side it will create PDF to text
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conversion complete and it will create
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this output.txt file so now it will
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extract all the content in the PDF and
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save it as a TXT file so now let me show
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you first of all you just need to
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install this module so we simply need to
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install this third party module of
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PDF-P i've already installed it so now I
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will show you step by step so for this
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you just need the file system module as
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well and then you simply require this uh
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third party module PDF parts after
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requiring it you just need to
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file so our input PDF file is present in
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the same directory so we'll use the read
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file sync method to read the input files
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so our input file name is bulb file so I
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will just provide the path here after
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providing the input PDF file here you
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just need to say PDF we simply call this
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uh third party method uh package right
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here and here we specify the
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actual PDF content here which is located
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in this variable data buffer and this
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actually returns a promise here we can
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handle this promise by dot then and this
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returns the actual text which is
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extracted and here we can actually after
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extracting the text we can write this
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file here as a txt file here so
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outputtxt and then we specify
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data.ext so all the data will be
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extracted and it will be
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and so this is data buffer sorry data
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buffer just make sure the spelling is
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correct and after that we can just show
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a simple notification message that uh
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successfully so this is the overall
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script guys if I once again run this you
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will see it will actually extract the
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data if I change the file name here
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two so it will create this file here
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output 2.txt so once again it extracted
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all the text from the PDF and stored
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this so in this easy way you can do this
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inside NodeJS to extract data from PDF
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and also check out my website
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freemediatools.com which contains
