PDF Process

Library for processing PDF files in Rust, wraps the CLI utilities provided by Poppler specifically pdftotext (Text extraction), pdftocairo (Image rendering), pdfinfo (Extracting basic details)

Provides functionality for:

• Extracting PDF text contents
• Rendering PDF files to images (PNG/JPEG/TIFF)
• Basic PDF Details (Encryption, Page Count, Subject, Title, Creator, Author, etc..)

Prerequisites

Library developed against a Linux host. Windows is not supported

Requires Plopper be installed on your system and the utilities on your PATH. Lots of distributions will come with this pre-installed. You can check if its installed by using pdfinfo -v which should produce an output similar to:

pdfinfo version 24.02.0
Copyright 2005-2024 The Poppler Developers - http://poppler.freedesktop.org
Copyright 1996-2011, 2022 Glyph & Cog, LLC,

Otherwise you can install it with one of the commands below:

Fedora:

sudo dnf install poppler-utils

Adjust the command above for your specific Linux distribution

Installation

Install with cargo:

cargo add pdf_process

Or add the following to the [dependencies] section of your Cargo.toml:

pdf_process = "0.1.0"

Tested

Tested against:

• pdftotext version 24.02.0
• pdftocairo version 24.02.0
• pdfinfo version 24.02.0