PdfTextExtractor

Category: Web

Source: pdf_text_extractor.dart

Classes

PdfExtractionResult

Result of PDF text extraction.

Constructor

PdfExtractionResult({this.text, this.error, this.pageCount = 0})

factory PdfExtractionResult.withError(String error)

PdfExtractionResult(error: error)

Properties

Property	Type	Description
text	String?
error	String?
pageCount	int
isSuccess	bool get
isSuccess	bool get

PdfTextExtractor

Extracts text from PDF bytes using the pdftotext CLI tool.

pdftotext is part of poppler-utils, available on macOS (brew install poppler), Linux (apt install poppler-utils), and Windows (scoop/choco).

Constructor

PdfTextExtractor({this.timeoutSeconds = 60})

Properties

Property	Type	Description
timeoutSeconds	int

Methods

static bool isPdfContent(Uint8List bytes)

Check if the PDF magic bytes are present.

static bool isPdfContentType(String contentType)

Check if a content-type header indicates PDF.

static Future<bool> checkPdftotextAvailable()

Check whether pdftotext is available on this system.

Future<PdfExtractionResult> extract(Uint8List bytes)

Extract text from PDF [bytes] using pdftotext.

Writes bytes to a temp file, runs pdftotext, reads output, cleans up.