As the title above. Now I am making an electron app that has function is show content of a docx file which includes words and images.
Do anyone know a nodejs library to do that?
I've had this question a few times (so would love to hear what you end up using).
We've used Textract (https://www.npmjs.com/package/textract) (NB. there is a Python package, and an AWS service, with the same name; which are both unrelated.) It is just getting the plain text out. It has struggled with some formats, especially PDF. If you also want images and formatting, this is not really what you want.
A quick Google found this list:
https://libraries.io/search?keywords=docx&languages=JavaScript
Mammoth (https://github.com/mwilliamson/mammoth.js) is actively developed. Take note of the limitations it describes. However the fact that it produces HTML will make your display in an Electron app much easier.
LibreOffice-convert (https://github.com/elwerene/libreoffice-convert) is new to me since I last searched. Leveraging LibreOffice sounds like an intelligent thing to do. It is just a simple wrapper around the headless mode of LibreOffice. The dependencies make it less than ideal for an Electron app.
Along the same lines, you could try a wrapper for pandoc (https://github.com/eshinn/node-pandoc)
JUL 2021
If you only want to work with DOCX or plain text you can use textract-lite
More document types (10+) available in textract
yarn add #nosferatu500/textract
https://github.com/nosferatu500/textract
yarn add #nosferatu500/textract-lite
https://github.com/nosferatu500/textract-lite
Note:
I forked and updated deps when various CVE was found. I also cut out all the functionality for the light version and left only support for docx and txt
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I'm developing a web page. I want to create an option to generate a .pdf file and allow the user to download it.
Currently I'm using jsPDF but I'm finding it very hard to properly format the document.
I was hoping to find a new way of building it in markdown format, compile it and then download it.
Is there a way that I can do this, in node.js, where say, I have a string in memory (which is the markdown text format), compile that into a pdf and then download it from the page?
I haven't found any package that really does this, if you know, feel free to just let me know which one can achieve this and I'll figure it out.
For such a thing, I recommend building your .pdf file first a HTML file, so you could edit it easily (hardcoded or dynamicaly)
then convert your html file to .pdf file.
there is alot of packages to do this
have a closer look on this package
https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-pdf-node
Project Environment
The environment we are currently developing is using Windows 10. nodejs 10.16.0, express web framework. The actual environment being deployed is the Linux Ubuntu server and the rest is the same.
What technology do you want to implement?
The technology that I want to implement is the information that I entered when I joined the membership. For example, I want to automatically put it in the input text box using my name, age, address, phone number, etc. so that the user only needs to fill in the remaining information in the PDF. (PDF is on some of the webpages.)
If all the information is entered, the PDF is saved and the document is sent to another vendor, which is the end.
Current Problems
We looked at about four days for PDFs, and we tried to create PDFs when we implemented the outline, structure, and code, just like it was on this site at https://web.archive.org/web/20141010035745/http://gnupdf.org/Introduction_to_PDF
However, most PDFs seem to be compressed into flatDecode rather than this simple. So I also looked at Data extraction from /Filter /FlateDecode PDF stream in PHP and tried to decompress it using QPDF.
Unzip it for now.Well, I thought it would be easy to find out the difference compared to the PDF without Kim after putting it in the first name.
However, there is too much difference even though only three characters are added... And the PDF structure itself is more difficult and complex to proceed with.
Note : https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf (PDF official document in English)
Is there a way to solve the problem now?
It sounds like you want to create a PDF from scratch and possibly extract data from it and you are finding this a more difficult prospect than you first imagined.
Check out my answer here on why PDF creation and reading is non-trivial and why you should reach for a tool you help you do this:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/53357682/1669243
Stuck in this weird situation at work. I have .doc files I'm parsing with Node.JS. They have photos in them that are .emf I want to display in my web app. I have no issue getting the emf file out of the word doc, but I can't figure out how to display it on a webpage. Simply embedding as is didn't work. I tried to find a utility to convert them automatically but with no luck. I thought of converting them myself but can't find any tecnhical info on the .emf file.
Any suggestions?
EMF (WMF) are the SVG like formats of the 1990's.
I can't give you the full solution in this space but checkout this thread that uses Apache Batik
If you don't want to build it yourself perhaps try the paid version of converters
If you can't afford I would recommend to host the Batik and make a service endpoint and make calls to generate the desired format from EMF. It may turn out actually faster.
I am using example source code from the Lucene 4.2.0 demo API:
http://lucene.apache.org/core/4_2_0/demo/overview-summary.html
I run IndexFiles.java to create an index from a directory of rtf, pdf, doc, and docx files. I then run SearcFiles.java and notice that I encounter several instances where my searches fail i.e. it does not return a document that contains the word I searched for.
I suspect it has to do with Lucene 4.2.0 not being able to correctly index non .txt files without additional customization.
Question: Can the IndexFiles.java source code (Lucene 4.2.0) correctly index pdf, doc, docx files as it is written in the provided link? Does anyone have examples or references on how to code that functionality?
Thank You
No, it can't. IndexFiles is a demo, an example for you to learn from, but not really designed for production use. If you take a look at the code, you'll see it just uses a FileInputStream (wrapped with an InputStreamReader, wrapped with a BufferedReader). Generally, Lucene won't handle how to parse different file formats (except it's own index files, of course). How to parse a file to provide meaningful content to Lucene is up to you to define.
Apache Tika might be a good place to look for this functionality. Here is a simple example using Tika with Lucene.
You might also consider using Solr.
At the moment, we use MS WORD and MS EXCEL to mail merge documents that needs to be sent to multiple recepients.
For example, say there is a complaint form where the complainant needs to fill in his/her name, address, etc. So we have a .doc file set up with the content and the dynamic entities set up for mail merging, with the name and address details put in an excel file, from where we can happily mail merge to generate all or just the necessary forms/documents.
However, I would like to automate this process, like a form in a website where the complainant can fill in his/her name, address and other details, and we could use that to generate the complaint form automatically and offer it to be downloaded (preferrably as a pdf).
Now, the only solution that comes to mind, is Latex, so that I can just replace the needed entities and just compile to PDF. However, that bit has to be negotiated with the webhost, if they are offering Latex or not.
Is there any other solution? Any other way we could get this done, with something that shouldn't be a problem for most webhosting solutions to offer?
EDIT: I would prefer a non .NET or rather non microsoft solution since, the servers are running linux and while mono might be capable of getting the job done, none of our devs know any .NET languages. However, if required we might have to dwelve into it.
Generating PDF using an XSL. Check the following: Apoc XSL-FO
You will need to create an XML file with the required fields and transform that with this tool.
If you wish to avoid .NET then XSL-FO is worth a look. Try the FOray project.
XSLT can be a steep learn if you do not have experience already. Also users will not be able to change the templates without asking the XSLT guru to do it.
If your templates are already in MS Word and MS Excel then I would stick with generating MS docs on the server. These are now easy to work with from code since OpenXML - check out OfficeOpenXML and OpenXMLDeveloper
Apache FOP : http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
I suggest generating rtf on the server: it's easy enough to automatically generate using cpan's RTF::Writer, has converters generating good pdf, can be edited by hand in word, oo-writer & TextEdit, doesn't have any really bad compatibility issues between the main editing applications, and has decent text & resource extraction tools, with text extraction being rather better than pdf.
There's some support for moving between rtf & latex, although the best rtf -> latex converter, docx2tex, depends on the System.IO.Packaging .net module, whose mono implementation isn't yet rock solid.
Postscript — Not a recommendation: it's too much of an unwieldy sledgehammer for this job, but iText will generate the pdf directly from the form data. If you wanted to do fancy things like signed pdf, that would be the way to go.
Postscript #2 — If you break up the Word document into individual files using word's master document representation, then you can clobber one of the parts with hand-generated content. This makes it easy to do something approximating form-filling on word .doc files using just standard file-utils and some trivial rtf->doc tweaking.