Arcana.FileParser.PDF.Poppler (Arcana v3.0.0)

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PDF parser using poppler's pdftotext command.

This is the default PDF parser for Arcana. It requires the pdftotext command from the Poppler library to be installed on the system.

Installation

# macOS
brew install poppler

# Ubuntu/Debian
apt-get install poppler-utils

# Fedora
dnf install poppler-utils

Options

  • :layout - Preserve original text layout (default: true)

Return shape

parse/2 returns {:ok, text, %{pages: [...]}} — the three-element form Arcana.FileParser allows — so callers can map chunks back to page numbers. Code that only wants the text should go through Arcana.FileParser.PDF.parse/3 or Arcana.Parser.parse/1, both of which normalize to {:ok, text}.

Summary

Functions

available?()

Checks if pdftotext is available on the system.

supports_binary?()

Returns false - Poppler requires a file path, not binary content.

Functions

available?()

Checks if pdftotext is available on the system.

Examples

iex> Arcana.FileParser.PDF.Poppler.available?()
true  # or false if poppler not installed

supports_binary?()

Returns false - Poppler requires a file path, not binary content.