@markitdownjs/pdf

PDF to AST converter for MarkItDownJS, powered by pdfjs-dist. Extracts text content, document structure, metadata, and page information.

Install

npm install @markitdownjs/pdf

pdfjs-dist is a peer dependency and will be installed automatically.

Usage

import { MarkItDown } from "@markitdownjs/core";
import { PdfConverter } from "@markitdownjs/pdf";

const parser = new MarkItDown();
parser.registerConverter(new PdfConverter());

const result = await parser.convert({ source: pdfBuffer, mimeType: "application/pdf" });
console.log(result.markdown);

Key Exports

| Export | Description | |---|---| | PdfConverter | Converter plugin — register with MarkItDown |

What Gets Extracted

• Text content with paragraph and heading detection
• Page boundaries (preserved as pageNumber in AST nodes)
• Document metadata: title, author, creation date, subject
• Multi-column layout heuristics

Options

parser.registerConverter(new PdfConverter({
  extractMetadata: true,
  preservePageBreaks: true,
}));

Accepted MIME Types

• application/pdf

Part of the MarkItDownJS monorepo.