gebo-docs

A gebo-server module for document-to-text conversions

Third-party requirements

This package has a butt-load of dependencies. It's tested on Ubuntu 12.04. It'll probably work on other distributions, but the unit tests may break.

poppler-utils 0.24.5

This enables you to convert PDFs to plain text (with pdftotext).

Remove the current poppler-utility, if present:

sudo apt-get remove poppler-utils

Visit [http://poppler.freedesktop.org/] to get a new and stable version (the preferred version is poppler-0.24.5.tar.xz)

tar xvf poppler-0.24.5.tar.xz

Prep poppler-utils for compilation and installation:

cd poppler-0.24.5
./configure

If configure is stopped due to missing fontconfig, you need to install fontconfig:

sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1-dev
./configure

Compile the package:

sudo make

Install the programs, data files, and documentation:

sudo make install

Reboot the system:

sudo reboot

See if the programs were installed:

pdftohtml

If you see the following message:

error while loading shared libraries: libpoppler.so.44: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory

Run:

sudo cp /usr/local/lib/libpoppler.so.44 /usr/lib/

docx2txt

Download the source and install manually from here: [http://sourceforge.net/projects/docx2txt/]

sudo apt-get install unzip
tar xvfz docx2txt-1.2.tgz
cd docx2txt-1.2/
sudo make
cd /usr/local/bin
sudo cp docx2txt.pl docx2txt

Et al

sudo apt-get install unrtf
sudo apt-get install odt2txt
sudo apt-get install catdoc

Install

npm install gebo-docs

Usage

Do this if you're happy with the default configuration:

var doc = require('gebo-docs')();

Do this if you set your own third-party dependencies in gebo-docs.json (copy the file provided into the desired directory and modify there):

var doc = require('gebo-docs')('/directory/in/which/config/file/is/contained');

Once required,

doc.convertToText('filename').
    then(text) {
        console.log(text); 
      }).
    catch(err) {
        // Something went wrong 
      });

Contributing

Hit me with it

Licence

MIT