modesty/pdf2json

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converts binary PDF to JSON and text, for server-side PDF processing and command-line use. Zero dependency.

Is modesty/pdf2json beginner-friendly?

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Nov 6, 2026
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Sep 20, 2026
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  • getRawTextContent() returns the lines of every page in reverse order (bottom to top) since 4.0.3
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    Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 90/100

    modesty/pdf2json#442 ·

  • parseBuffer ignores byteOffset - small PDFs read from the wrong memory
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

    modesty/pdf2json#427 · 1 comment ·

  • Something is wrong with the text width calculation
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    modesty/pdf2json#426 ·

  • many warnings in version 4.0.0
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    modesty/pdf2json#416 · 2 reactions ·

  • Unable to parse text from a valid pdf
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    help-wanted: type3-font not-supported

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    modesty/pdf2json#363 · 1 comment ·

  • How to detect the HLines correctly?
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    modesty/pdf2json#331 ·

  • fields with periods are truncated
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    modesty/pdf2json#324 · 2 comments ·

  • Height of texts
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    modesty/pdf2json#304 · 2 reactions ·

  • Unable to find other page content
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    modesty/pdf2json#280 · 2 comments ·

  • Scraping hyperlinks from pdf?
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    modesty/pdf2json#270 · 2 comments ·

  • skips invisible form fields
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    modesty/pdf2json#265 · 1 comment ·

  • Get picture data in pdf?
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    modesty/pdf2json#256 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

  • [feature] please include in "Texts" the font name or object id
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    modesty/pdf2json#252 ·

  • FinCEN form cannot be converted
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    modesty/pdf2json#236 ·

  • Coordinates to millimeters
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    modesty/pdf2json#232 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

  • Units of the dimension/some are missing?
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    modesty/pdf2json#213 · 3 comments ·

  • how to add a new font or style?
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    modesty/pdf2json#211 ·

  • getRawTextContent() returns text not found in pdfData.formImage
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    modesty/pdf2json#209 ·

  • issue: one text elements per character
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    modesty/pdf2json#205 · 3 comments · 3 reactions ·

  • [Question] Targeted page number of Link
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    modesty/pdf2json#198 ·

  • text elements have incorrect y coordinates
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    modesty/pdf2json#195 · 3 comments ·

  • Best practices for pdf conversion
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 20/100

    modesty/pdf2json#187 · 1 comment ·

  • TypeError: infoDict.has is not a function
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    modesty/pdf2json#186 · 2 comments · 2 reactions ·

  • Get every Word instead of Row
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    enhancement not-supported

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    modesty/pdf2json#185 · 1 reaction ·

  • Italic is not recognized
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    modesty/pdf2json#175 ·

  • Help: Take 150 seconds to parse
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    modesty/pdf2json#168 · 1 reaction ·

  • Annotations / Field Names - Incorrect name for fields
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    modesty/pdf2json#167 · 2 comments · 3 reactions ·

  • Can not read file
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    modesty/pdf2json#160 ·

  • Silent error on parse semi-transparent content
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

    modesty/pdf2json#157 · 6 comments · 2 reactions ·

  • Problem parsing PDF document, text not recognized.
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    modesty/pdf2json#152 · 8 comments ·

  • getRawTextContent() method not consistent in multiple sequential calls
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    modesty/pdf2json#151 · 1 comment · 2 reactions ·

  • Merge algorithm is broken
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    modesty/pdf2json#150 ·

  • details:"Error: PDFDocument: stream must have data"
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    modesty/pdf2json#143 ·

  • Command 6: because expected 2 args, but received 0 args; skipping & Unhandled rejection: Error: Illegal character: 41
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    modesty/pdf2json#141 ·

  • complete pdf content into json format
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    modesty/pdf2json#140 · 1 comment ·

  • not an issue: can I add form values and save the PDF?
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    modesty/pdf2json#138 · 3 reactions ·

  • pdfcanvas.js getCoords_ help
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    modesty/pdf2json#137 ·

  • 'w' doesn't make sense
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    modesty/pdf2json#136 · 5 comments · 8 reactions ·

  • Does anyone support this module anymore?
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    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 15/100

    modesty/pdf2json#134 · 1 comment ·

  • extracted data in the form of encoding format
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    modesty/pdf2json#132 · 3 comments ·

  • images from PDF
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

    modesty/pdf2json#127 · 1 comment ·

  • Depend of PDF.js instead of storing an old copy
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    modesty/pdf2json#126 · 1 comment · 2 reactions ·

  • Not parsing line correctly
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    modesty/pdf2json#125 ·

  • Converting json back to pdf (json2pdf?)
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

    modesty/pdf2json#124 · 1 comment · 13 reactions ·

  • Possible to parse a subset of pdf?
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    modesty/pdf2json#121 · 1 comment ·

  • what's meaning about 'w' and 'sw'
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    modesty/pdf2json#118 · 4 comments · 3 reactions ·

  • Facing issue in fetching actual text?
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    modesty/pdf2json#116 ·

  • pdfjson not generate js file when using Chinese spdf
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    modesty/pdf2json#115 · 1 comment ·

  • Character Conversion changed after a certain PDF
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    modesty/pdf2json#114 ·

  • how to free memory used by pdf2json?
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    modesty/pdf2json#113 · 3 comments ·

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