Why did we create this project?

1. In the Laravel project, it was necessary to extract texts from large files. Existing packages do not work with files larger than 50 megabytes.
2. Text extraction is an expensive operation. Running on a separate server will reduce the load.
3. It was necessary to create a cover for the source.

Install Docker and Docker Compose

git clone https://github.com/dotcode-moscow/pdf-api.git
cd pdf-api
docker-compose up -d pdf-api

Extracts text from a file. As a parameter, we pass the URL to the file.

ping-pong method

Image to pdf converter

curl -d "url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/rendition/nla.news-page29291123.pdf" "http://localhost:8080/api/extractText"

http://localhost:8080/api/extractText?url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/rendition/nla.news-page29291123.pdf

"Page number" (without sorting) and "extracted text".
"img" - jpeg base64 front page cover

{
  "1":"National Library of Australia...",
  "img": "data:image/jpeg;base64..."
}

network_mode: "host"

PDFBox

Pull requests are welcome.