The goal of this project is to scrape through a pdf containing various veterinary drugs and output a .json file for convenient consumption.
It's not perfect, some text but not all got overcaptured. But it is sufficient for my use case.
Utilizing PDF.js, along with Typescript, I set out to partition each medicine section based on the medicine list on the index page. From there, it's straightforward to find the page length of each medicine section based on each section's starting page differences.
Regular Expressions(regex) were heavily used to help me in finding the correct string I wanted.
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Index Page
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Page Layout
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JSON Object Output
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Script Duration
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/DanielMcFluffy/PDFTextExtract.git - Navigate to the project directory:
cd repository - Install dependencies:
npm install - Run project:
npm start
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