I am writing a Chrome extension that manipulates PDF files and am looking to get all the text of a PDF file that's currently open in Chrome's PDF viewer.
I learned from How can I get selected text in pdf in Javascript? how to get selected text, but I couldn't find in the API a function that extracts the entire text (or better yet the PDF itself, and then send it to a server). Is it possible?
I am aware of the solution of sending the URL and downloading it on the server side, but sometimes it is problematic (e.g. PDFs from password-protected websites).
Thanks.
I have tried looking in the API, https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chrome/browser/resources/pdf/pdf_scripting_api.ts I have also tried "downloading" the PDF on client side and sending it as Blob to a server, but it's a problematic solution (sometimes blocked for example, requires extra permission).
