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[Feature] Extract Text from PDF (PDF to TXT)Β #13

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@mateipruteanu

πŸ”Ή Difficulty: β­β­β˜†β˜†β˜† (Medium)
🎯 Usefulness: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Very High)

πŸ“ Description

Implement text extraction from PDFs, allowing users to convert PDFs into plain text. This is useful for copying, editing, or processing text from documents.

❓ Why?

  • Many PDFs contain copyable text that users may want to extract.
  • Helps users retrieve text from reports, articles, and scanned documents.
  • Useful for accessibility and text processing tasks.

πŸ› οΈ Implementation Details

  • Use pdf.js to extract text content from PDF pages (getTextContent()).
  • If the PDF contains scanned images instead of text, use Tesseract.js (OCR).
  • Provide an option to download the extracted text as a .txt file.

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