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NativeScript PdfBox android

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Apache Pdfbox for NativeScript. This plugin allows you to extract the text from a PDF file.

ALPHA version. Android only (iOS may come in the future, PR are welcome).

Sample Android

The screenshot is based on the sample.pdf included in the demo project.

Based on:

Android PdfBox-Android

Installation

tns plugin add nativescript-pdfbox

Usage

import * as fs from 'tns-core-modules/file-system';
import { PdfBox } from 'nativescript-pdfbox';
const appPath = fs.knownFolders.currentApp().path;
const mySampleFile = appPath + '/sample.pdf';
const removeLineBreaks: boolean = true; // optional, default is false
const pdfbox: PdfBox = new PdfBox();
pdfbox
 .getText(mySampleFile, removeLineBreaks)
 .then(text => {
 this.messageNotRemovedLB = text;
 super.notifyPropertyChange('messageNotRemovedLB', text);
 });