PDF Parser

This is a simple command-line tool written in Go to parse text from PDF files and output it to standard output, CSV, JSON, or Parquet format.

This tool relies on the pdftotext command-line utility, which is part of the poppler-utils package.

Installation

1. Install Go: Make sure you have Go installed on your system. You can download it from https://golang.org/.

2. Install poppler-utils: You need to install the poppler-utils package, which provides the pdftotext utility.

   • On Debian/Ubuntu:

     sudo apt-get update
     sudo apt-get install poppler-utils

   • On CentOS/RHEL:

     sudo yum install poppler-utils

   • On macOS (using Homebrew):

     brew install poppler

3. Build the pdf-parser:

   git clone <repository_url>
   cd pdf-parser
   go build -o pdf-parser main.go

Usage

To use the pdf-parser, run the following command:

./pdf-parser -input=<path_to_your_pdf_file> -output=<text|csv|json|parquet>

Command-line Flags

• -input: (Required) The path to the input PDF file.
• -output: (Optional) The output format. Can be text, csv, json, or parquet. Defaults to text.

Examples

• Text Output (default):

  ./pdf-parser -input=my_document.pdf

• CSV Output:

  ./pdf-parser -input=my_document.pdf -output=csv

• JSON Output:

  ./pdf-parser -input=my_document.pdf -output=json

• Parquet Output:

  ./pdf-parser -input=my_document.pdf -output=parquet