pdf-renderer

An alternative way to render PDF with keeping origin PDF coordinates for text blocks

Problem

In some cases we need to render PDF on the web page but for some reasones we also need to know origin coordinates of text blocks

It can be useful if you are planning to select some text and then send that selection with its coordinates to third-party system

Logic

• Via package pdf2json we extract needed data (text blocks and lines) to JSON
• on the server we create HTML for every text block and line: div with absolute positioning
• on the client we just render an array of those divs in the specified container

Setting up

Clone the repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/daminort/pdf-renderer.git

Go to the server folder and install dependencies:

$ cd server
$ npm install

Go to the client folder and install dependencies:

$ cd client
$ npm install

Runnig

Go to the server folder and start it:

$ cd server
$ npm start

Go to the client folder and start it:

$ cd client
$ npm start

Now you can visit page localhost:3000 and try application

License

MIT © Daminort