pdf_process
| Crates.io | pdf_process |
| lib.rs | pdf_process |
| version | 0.2.0 |
| created_at | 2024-08-05 09:47:27.800615+00 |
| updated_at | 2024-08-20 01:01:23.140731+00 |
| description | Library for rendering and extracting metadata/text from PDF files using poppler |
| homepage | https://github.com/jacobtread/pdf_process |
| repository | https://github.com/jacobtread/pdf_process |
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Jacob (jacobtread)
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PDF Process
Library for processing PDF files in Rust, wraps the CLI utilities provided by Poppler specifically pdftotext (Text extraction), pdftocairo (Image rendering), pdfinfo (Extracting basic details)
Provides functionality for:
- Extracting PDF text contents
- Rendering PDF files to images (PNG/JPEG/TIFF)
- Basic PDF Details (Encryption, Page Count, Subject, Title, Creator, Author, etc..)
Prerequisites
Library developed against a Linux host. Windows is not supported
Requires Plopper be installed on your system and the utilities on your PATH. Lots
of distributions will come with this pre-installed. You can check if its installed by using pdfinfo -v which should
produce an output similar to:
pdfinfo version 24.02.0
Copyright 2005-2024 The Poppler Developers - http://poppler.freedesktop.org
Copyright 1996-2011, 2022 Glyph & Cog, LLC,
Otherwise you can install it with one of the commands below:
Fedora:
sudo dnf install poppler-utils
Adjust the command above for your specific Linux distribution
Installation
Install with cargo:
cargo add pdf_process
Or add the following to the [dependencies] section of your Cargo.toml:
pdf_process = "0.1.0"
Tested
Tested against:
- pdftotext version 24.02.0
- pdftocairo version 24.02.0
- pdfinfo version 24.02.0