read_pdf_text 0.0.8

This is a plugin that parses string out of pdf documents. It uses apache PDFbox to parse the pdf document. There is only three functions so it is simple to use.

read_pdf_text

This package parses text out of PDF documents and returns it as a string. On Android the plugin uses PDFbox open source library. The iOS version is not implemented yet.

Getting Started

The package only has three functions getPDFtext(path), getPDFtextPaginated(path) and getPDFlength(path). Path is the file path to the PDF file you want to parse. I used file_picker package in the example to get the path of PDF file.

Check the example for more details.

Example

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getPDFtext(String path)

Returns all text from PDF file as a String.

    Future<String> getPDFtext(String path) async {
    String text = "";
    try {
      text = await ReadPdfText.getPDFtext(path);
    } on PlatformException {
      text = 'Failed to get PDF text.';
    }
    return text;
  }

getPDFtextPaginated(path)

Returns all text from PDF but in a List

  Future<List<String>> getPDFtextPaginated(String path) async {
    List<String> textList = List<String>();
    try {
      textList = await ReadPdfText.getPDFtextPaginated(path);
    } on PlatformException {}
    return textList;
  }

getPDFlength(path)

Returns length of the document as integer.

  Future<int> getPDFlength(String path) async {
    int length = 0;
    try {
      length = await ReadPdfText.getPDFlength(path);
    } on PlatformException {}
    return length;
  }