# Install pdf-text-extract with npm

Extract text from pdfs that contain searchable pdf text. Version 1.5.0 via npm; verified 2017-03-24.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:pdf-text-extract
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g pdf-text-extract
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:pdf-text-extract
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdf-text-extract>
- **Version:** 1.5.0
- **Source summary:** Extract text from pdfs that contain searchable pdf text
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/nisaacson/pdf-text-extract#readme>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/nisaacson/pdf-text-extract>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/nisaacson/pdf-text-extract#readme>
- **License:** BSD
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/pdf-text-extract/-/pdf-text-extract-1.5.0.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/nisaacson/pdf-text-extract/issues>
- **Published:** 2017-03-24T14:58:56.943Z
- **Last updated:** 2017-03-24T14:58:56.943Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## Executables

- pdf-text-extract (cli)
- pdf-text-extract (alias)

## Dependencies

- yargs

## Build dependencies

- mocha
- should
- snazzy
- standard

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 1.5.0
- Package-manager updated: 2017-03-24
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/nisaacson/pdf-text-extract
- warning: The package-manager record has not been updated in over a year.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

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


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 1.5.0
- **Version Count:** 23
- **Maintainers:** clewfirst, nisaacson
- **Author:** Noah Isaacson
- **Publisher:** nisaacson
- **Integrity:** sha512-5zpNQljVf4h0b9sY8KGKDHxYoTYqDjahvkxmpHwpxBe3p92AWnscpWausl5/OaedOgnS8Pw53DOQx7bqtYcpow==
- **Shasum:** 4a6b648d903f5552d48bd9844e36446452b85e60
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2013-03-20T02:43:33.729Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2017-03-24T14:58:56.943Z
- **Modified At:** 2022-06-23T16:36:15.779Z


## Related links

- [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [pdf-visual-diff](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/pdf-visual-diff/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: cli, data, document, document-processing, pdf.
- [pdf-merger-js](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/pdf-merger-js/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: cli, data, document, document-processing, pdf.
- [pdf2json](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/pdf2json/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: cli, data, document, document-processing, pdf.

## Sources

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