PDF Scraper

This is a React 18 application that allows the user to upload a .pdf file and the app will extract the text from the file and create a formatted copy of the text in a .txt/plain text file that can be downloaded. Below are instructions on how to set up and run the application locally.

Table of Contents

• [Installation]
• [Running the App]
• [Building for Production]
• [Contributing]

##create a new folder for the app and open it in your code editor of choice

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/Phlypper/pdf_scraper.git
   cd pdf_scraper

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install tesseract.js
   npm install pdfjs-dist
   npm install file-saver
   

##Make certain: Copy ‘pdf.worker.min.mjs’ from node_module/pdefjs-diskt/build and paste it into the public folder

Running the App

To start the development server, run:

npm start

The application will be available at http://localhost:3000/.

Building for Production

To create a production build, run:

npm run build

The production-ready files will be in the build directory.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please submit a pull request or open an issue if you have any suggestions or find any bugs.

This app was created with the use of multiple AI GPTs