I have read elsewhere (Reading PDF file using javascript) how to read the texts in a pdf file, and showing them in the console. This is done using the following code:
var PdfReader = require("pdfreader").PdfReader;
new PdfReader().parseFileItems("sample.pdf", function(err, item){
if (item && item.text)
console.log(item.text);
});
My question is, instead of showing the texts in the console using console.log, how do I store them in an array, for use at a later stage of the script?
Initialize an array above the parse function, then push the items to the array:
var PdfReader = require("pdfreader").PdfReader;
var arr = [];
new PdfReader().parseFileItems("sample.pdf", function(err, item){
if (item && item.text){
arr.push(item.text);
}
});
console.log(arr);