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PDF to CSV JavaScript

Extract tables from PDF documents to CSV files with password support, page range selection, optional OCR, and delimiter control.

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PDF to CSV JavaScript Overview

Extract tables from textual and scanned PDF documents to comma-separated values CSV files. The JS module identifies bordered and border-less tabular structures within pdf documents and extracts these tables to a list of CSV formatted files.

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Customizable Parameters

Fine-tune your automation with these powerful conversion options

File

File Supported formats: .pdf

File to be converted. Value can be URL or file content.

Password

String

Sets the password to open protected documents.

PageRange

String Default: 1-2000

Set page range. Example 1-10 or 1,2,5.

EnableOcr

Collection Default: Scanned

Enable optical character recognition(OCR). Set the property to ALL to perform OCR on all pages and Scanned to perform OCR on scanned pages if PDF contains mixed pages - text and image pages.

Values:   Scanned All None

OcrLanguage

Collection Default: en

Set the OCR language. Ask support to add your language if missing.

Values:   ar ca zh-cn zh-tw da nl en fi fa de el he it ja ko lt no pl pt ro ru sl es sv tr ua th

Delimiter

String Default: ,

Set fields separator.

StoreFile

Bool Default: False

When the StoreFile parameter is set to True, your converted file is written to ConvertAPI’s encrypted, temporary storage and made available via a time-limited secure download URL, valid for up to 3 hours. After this period, the file is permanently deleted.

When StoreFile is set to False, conversion happens entirely in-memory. The raw file bytes are streamed back in the API response without touching disk or external storage, ensuring maximum security and zero persistence so that only you can access the content.

Step-by-Step Guide

Easy PDF to CSV integration programmatically using our simple JavaScript SDK

1. ConvertAPI JavaScript library install

ConvertAPI provides a JavaScript module that allows you to perform a PDF to CSV conversion with just a few lines of code. First, install the convertapi-js@~1.1 package from npm:

NPM package >
npm i convertapi-js@~1.1
JavaScript Client GitHub

If you are interested in our old version of non-module JavaScript library you can find it here.

2. Authenticate your JavaScript library

Next, obtain your API Token by signing up for a free account. Once you sign up, you'll receive 250 free conversions instantly! Grab your API Token from the account dashboard, and authenticate the ConvertAPI JavaScript library like this:

import ConvertApi from 'convertapi-js'
let convertApi = ConvertApi.auth('api_token')

3. Convert PDF to CSV using JavaScript in no time!

Once you have your authentication in place, simply copy-paste this pdf to csv conversion code snippet into your JavaScript project. Convert PDF to CSV documents using JavaScript with no effort at all!

Integrate within minutes

Easy PDF to CSV automation using our simple JavaScript SDK

GitHub Repository

Explore the source code and examples on GitHub.

NPM package

View ConvertAPI package and versions on the npm registry.

JS SDK Documentation

Read more about the ConvertAPI JavaScript SDK capabilities.

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Compatible With all JavaScript Frameworks & Tools

Compatible with JavaScript Compatible with TypeScript Compatible with React Compatible with Vue.js Compatible with Angular Compatible with Webpack Compatible with WebStorm

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