Has anyone successfully parsed a PDF file using Weweb?

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Hello,

My usecase requires me to use a PDF file uploaded by a user and extract all text from it for further processing. I would prefer this to happen at the client side (text extraction) so I don’t need to worry about file storage. However, I cannot seem to get the NPM package for this to work.

I tried using GitHub - mozilla/pdfjs-dist: Generic build of PDF.js library. with Global property name “pdfjsLib” but it did not work.

Has someone managed to make this library (or any other) work for this usecase?

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Here is another one I could (potentially) use: UNPKG - pdf-ts

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Hi @pravictor,

PDF parsing is a backend task. WeWeb is a frontend builder. You can use PDF.js for some lightweight PDF viewing or manipulation, but it won’t be a full parsing solution, especially for complex files that contain images, tables, or non-standard formats. To use PDF.js, you need to build a custom Vue.js component. The NPM plugin is only for JS utilities.