README.md

poppler-simple

A simple javascript interface to poppler library.

Requirements:

1. iconv implementation (usually included in glibc).
2. Modern poppler library version (>= 0.18).

Install:

npm install poppler-simple

CentOS

To install the poppler libraries on CentOS the following packages need to be installed:

sudo yum install poppler poppler-utils poppler-cpp-devel

Ubuntu

To install the poppler libraries on Ubuntu the following packages need to be installed:

sudo apt-get install libpoppler-cpp-dev libpoppler-private-dev

Install in Docker:

See Dockerfile.example for inspiration/information

Documentation:

Documentation is available in form of typescript definitions.

Example:

import { PopperDocument } from 'poppler-simple';

let doc = new PopplerDocument('file://' + pathToSomeDocument);
let page = doc.getPage(pageNum);
// renders page to a buffer in jpeg format with 75 quality and 120 DPI:
let result = page.renderToBuffer('jpeg', 120, {'quality': 75});

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.