https://github.com/pixelastic/pietro

π Utilities to split PDF files into smaller files, generate thumbnails and extract textual content.
https://github.com/pixelastic/pietro

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π Utilities to split PDF files into smaller files, generate thumbnails and extract textual content.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pixelastic/pietro
• Owner: pixelastic
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-10-19T07:35:00.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-02-26T13:10:39.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-26T14:24:17.144Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: JavaScript
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• Size: 3.57 MB
• Stars: 7
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# π Pietro

Set of utilities to deal with PDF files: splitting into individual pages,

extracting text and images.

This modules relies on CLI binaries (qpdf, imagemagick, poppler-utils, etc), so

it provide good interoperability, it runs every command from inside a Docker

container.

It will be slower than other implementation, but it is portable.

_This package has been created out of the need to centralize common pattern of

PDF handling I needed for various projects. The way it names files and folders

makes sense to me, they might not suit you._

```js

import { extractPages, extractImages, extractText } from 'pietro';

// Extract each page of the pdf into its own file

await extractPages('./bigFile.pdf', './pages');

// ./pages/

// ./pages/001.pdf

// ./pages/...

// ./pages/401.pdf

// Extract the text of a given pdf into a txt file

await extractText('./pages/001.pdf', './text/001.txt');

// ./text/

// ./text/001.txt

// Extract all images from a given pdf file.

// ./raw contains ALL images, including presentational ones and masks

// ./illustrations only contains "real" illustration images

await extractImages('./pages/001.pdf', ./images');

// ./images/

// ./images/001/

// ./images/001/raw/

// ./images/001/raw/001.png

// ./images/001/raw/...

// ./images/001/raw/227.png

// ./images/001/illustrations/

// ./images/001/illustrations/1.png

// ./images/001/illustrations/...

// ./images/001/illustrations/5.png

```