Extracting text from PDF documents using PDFDATA.io
Here's our source PDF, which happense to contain a mix of English and Chinese:
We'll use PDFDATA.io and its official node.js client library…
You have PDF documents, but you need the data and content inside. Get at that data with a simple, featureful API built by experts with decades of experience extracting structured data from PDFs.
Essential data goes into producing each PDF, but getting it back out is harder than it should be. PDFDATA.io provides access to all of that data, structured to match your applications and databases. Text, bitmap images, form data, tabular data, annotations, region-based templates, and more.
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