clarekang/form-pdf2json

NodeJS library to convert JSON to PDF or vice versa

Form PDF2JSON

NodeJS library to convert JSON to PDF or vice versa (JSON to PDF or PDF to JSON)

Inspired from pdffiller.

• Requirements
  • Installation
• Definition
• Usage
• Commands
  • Convert file to data
    • PDF to JSON
    • JSON to FDF
  • Export to file
    • PDF to JSON
    • PDF to FDF
    • JSON to PDF

Requirements

This is dependent on the PDF Toolkit library PDF ToolKit So you should install PDF Toolkit first.

Installation

// with npm
npm install --save-dev form-pdf2json

// with yarn
yarn add form-pdf2json

Definition

Name	Desc	Misc
FieldType	Form Field Type	One of Text, Choice, Button
FieldName	Form Field Name	Unique
FieldStateOption	If FieldTypeis Button, actual value is FieldStateOption's value	-
FieldValue	-	-

Usage

var pdf2json = require("form-pdf2json");

// or

import pdf2json from "form-pdf2json";

// => { convertPdf2Json: [Function], convertJson2Fdf: [Function], ... }

Commands

Convert to data

PDF to JSON

convertPdf2Json

pdf2json.convertPdf2Json("path/to/file");
// returns json data

JSON to FDF

convertJson2Fdf

pdf2json.convertJson2Fdf("path/to/file");
// returns fdf data

Export to file

PDF to JSON

exportPdf2Json

pdf2json.exportPdf2Json("path/to/file");
// export json file

JSON to PDF

exportJson2Pdf

pdf2json.exportJson2Pdf("path/to/file");
// export json file

PDF to FDF

exportPdf2Fdf

pdf2json.exportPdf2Fdf("path/to/file");
// export json file

Contributions

Feel free to contribute by posting issues or pull requests on form-pdf2json

form-pdf2json's Issues

pdf2json.convertPdf2Json not a function?

I've got code like so:

var pdf2json = require('form-pdf2json')

console.log(pdf2json.convertPdf2Json('formExample.pdf'))

And it gives me :

TypeError: pdf2json.convertPdf2Json is not a function

Is there something I can do to fix this?