How extract text from pdf file in React native

Question

We need to extract text from pdf file in React native. Please suggest me any library or source code.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57435198/how-to-extract-content-from-pdf-file-in-react-native — Ken Lee, Dec 22 '20 at 05:58
If we use pdf-parse library, we are getting 'fs could not be found' — Hari krishna, Dec 22 '20 at 07:03
Some days ago I needed to extract text from pdf file using react-native, I try some libraries but none worked like expected for me, therefore I started create a new one library to extract texts from pdf using regex, this is on initial stage but could be util. https://1fabiopereira.github.io/react-native-pdf-extractor/ — 1fabiopereira, Jun 19 '22 at 22:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 22 '20 at 06:09

You can use react-native-pdf2json repo to read pdf content into json like

let fs = require('fs'),
PDFParser = require("pdf2json");

let pdfParser = new PDFParser();

pdfParser.on("pdfParser_dataError", errData => console.error(errData.parserError) );
pdfParser.on("pdfParser_dataReady", pdfData => {
     fs.writeFile("./pdf2json/test/F1040EZ.json", JSON.stringify(pdfData));
});

pdfParser.loadPDF("./pdf2json/test/pdf/fd/form/F1040EZ.pdf");

You can also use react-native-pdf-lib

How extract text from pdf file in React native

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