# Install pdf-parse with npm

Pure TypeScript, cross-platform module for extracting text, images, and tabular data from PDFs. Run directly in your browser or in Node! Version 2.4.5 via npm; verified 2025-10-20.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:pdf-parse
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g pdf-parse
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:pdf-parse
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdf-parse>
- **Version:** 2.4.5
- **Source summary:** Pure TypeScript, cross-platform module for extracting text, images, and tabular data from PDFs. Run directly in your browser or in Node!
- **Homepage:** <https://mehmet-kozan.github.io/pdf-parse/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/mehmet-kozan/pdf-parse>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://mehmet-kozan.github.io/pdf-parse/>
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/pdf-parse/-/pdf-parse-2.4.5.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/mehmet-kozan/pdf-parse/issues>
- **Published:** 2025-10-20T17:35:03.325Z
- **Last updated:** 2025-10-20T17:35:03.325Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## Executables

- pdf-parse (cli)
- pdf-parse (alias)

## Dependencies

- @napi-rs/canvas
- pdfjs-dist

## Build dependencies

- @biomejs/biome
- @microsoft/api-extractor
- @types/node
- @vitest/coverage-v8
- @vitest/ui
- esbuild
- rimraf
- terser
- tsx
- typedoc
- typescript
- vite
- vitest

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Lifecycle scripts: prepare
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 2.4.5
- Package-manager updated: 2025-10-20
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/mehmet-kozan/pdf-parse
- notice: The package-manager record has not changed recently.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for pdf-parse. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Beta: 2.4.4-beta.1, Latest: 2.4.5, Minor: 1.1.4
- **Version Count:** 53
- **Maintainers:** mehmet.kozan
- **Author:** Mehmet Kozan
- **Publisher:** mehmet.kozan
- **Engines:** Node: >=20.16.0 <21 || >=22.3.0
- **Funding:** <https://github.com/sponsors/mehmet-kozan>
- **Integrity:** sha512-mHU89HGh7v+4u2ubfnevJ03lmPgQ5WU4CxAVmTSh/sxVTEDYd1er/dKS/A6vg77NX47KTEoihq8jZBLr8Cxuwg==
- **Shasum:** fcbf9774d985a7f573e899c22618ab53a508a9f3
- **Unpacked Size:** 21,255,998
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2018-01-07T09:25:31.378Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2025-10-20T17:35:03.325Z
- **Modified At:** 2025-10-29T23:17:38.597Z


## Related links

- [Media and graphics packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/media-graphics-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [pdf-to-png-converter](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/pdf-to-png-converter/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: canvas, cli, dist, graphics, image.
- [pdf-to-img](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/pdf-to-img/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: cli, dist, graphics, image, image-processing.
- [oust](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/oust/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: cli, graphics, image, image-processing, images.

## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph