pdftohtmljs - pdf2htmlEx shell wrapper for Node.js

pdftohtmljs provides access to pdf2htmlEX via shell in node.js programs.

Requirements

• pdf2htmlEX

If you've docker env setup, just install it via docker

alias pdf2htmlEX="docker run -ti --rm -v ~/pdf:/pdf iapain/pdf2htmlex pdf2htmlEX"

~/pdf on host computer will be used as volume

PDF2HTMLEX path is resolved usiing following:

• first it looks into env variable PDF2HTMLEX_BIN.
• then it fallbacks to bin option.
• then it fallbacks to system path.

Installation

via npm:

npm install pdftohtmljs

Usage

const pdftohtml = require('pdftohtmljs')

// See presets (ipad, default)
// Feel free to create custom presets
// see https://github.com/fagbokforlaget/pdftohtmljs/blob/master/lib/presets/ipad.js
const convert = async (file, output, preset) => {
  const converter = new pdftohtml(file, output)

  // If you would like to tap into progress then create
  // progress handler
  converter.progress((ret) => {
    const progress = (ret.current * 100.0) / ret.total

    console.log(`${progress} %`)
  })

  try {
    // convert() returns promise
    await converter.convert(preset || 'ipad')
  } catch (err) {
    console.error(`Psst! something went wrong: ${err.msg}`)
  }

}

// call method
convert('test/pdfs/sample.pdf', 'sample.html')

Command line usage

npm install pdftohtmljs -g

pdftohtmljs sample.pdf

You may optionally provide your own filename and preset

pdftohtmljs sample.pdf sample.html ipad

Tests

$ npm test

NodeJS Support

This library support nodejs v8+