pdf-parser-express.js

// usage: node pdf-parser-express
// the below packages are required to run this server, and can be installed with npm

const express = require('express')
const bodyParser = require('body-parser')
const pdf = require('pdf-parse')
const crawler = require('crawler-request')
const multer = require('multer')

//var upload = multer({ dest: 'uploads/' })
var upload = multer()

const app = express()
const port = 3000

app.use(bodyParser.json())
app.use(bodyParser.raw())

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.send('Hello PDF Parsing!')
})

app.post('/pdf-base64-parse', function (req, res) {

  console.log(`Request body: ${JSON.stringify(req.body)}`)

  let buff = Buffer.from(req.body.base64, 'base64')

  pdf(buff).then(function(data) {
    // PDF text
    console.log(data.text); 
    res.send({ pdfText: data.text })

  })
})

app.post('/multipart-parse', upload.single('file'), function (req, res) {

  console.log(`Request File: ${JSON.stringify(req.file)}`)

  let buff = req.file.buffer

  pdf(buff).then(function(data) {
    // PDF text
    console.log(data.text); 
    res.send({ pdfText: data.text })

  })
})

app.post('/pdf-link-parse', function (req, res) {
  console.log(`Request body: ${JSON.stringify(req.body)}`)

  let pdfLink = req.body.link

  crawler(pdfLink).then(function(response){
    // handle response
    console.log(response.text);
    res.send({ pdfText: response.text })
  });
})

app.listen(port, () => {
  console.log(`Example app listening at http://localhost:${port}`)
})