@uploadista/flow-documents-unpdf

unpdf-based text extraction plugin for Uploadista Flow.

Features

• Fast text extraction from searchable PDFs
• Modern TypeScript-first API
• Async/await support
• Multi-page text extraction with structure preservation

Installation

pnpm add @uploadista/flow-documents-unpdf

Usage

import { UnpdfDocumentPluginLive } from "@uploadista/flow-documents-unpdf";
import { Effect } from "effect";

// Provide the plugin for text extraction
const program = Effect.gen(function* () {
  // Your flow logic here
}).pipe(Effect.provide(UnpdfDocumentPluginLive));

Why unpdf?

• Modern: TypeScript-first library maintained as an alternative to pdf-parse
• Reliable: Uses pdfjs-dist under the hood (Mozilla's PDF.js)
• Fast: Optimized for text extraction performance
• Universal: Works across all JavaScript runtimes

Use Cases

• Extract text from searchable PDFs for indexing
• Parse PDF documents for content analysis
• Extract structured text with paragraph/line preservation

When NOT to use

• For scanned documents or image-based PDFs (use OCR instead)
• For PDF manipulation (use pdf-lib instead)

License

MIT