Package
pdf-parse
Pure TypeScript, cross-platform module for extracting text, images, and tabular data from PDFs. Run directly in your browser or in Node!
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 6.2m
- +431% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 2
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 11 months ago
- v2.4.5
- GitHub stars
- 221
- 20 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 22 / 6
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 245
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
6,226,544 downloads last week, 30,576,236 in the last month. The 12-month change of +431% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 4152 in total
- Latest version
- 2.4.5, 20 Oct 202511 months ago
- First published
- 7 Jan 2018
- Last push to GitHub
- 4 May 2026143 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 22
- Open pull requests
- 6
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 245
- Dependents on npm
- 1,504
Major versions
- v2 first release 2.1.1, 2 Oct 2025
- v1 first release 1.0.1, 7 Jan 2018
- v0 first release 0.0.1, 7 Jan 2018
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 1.1.4 | 29 Oct 2025 |
| 1.1.3 | 25 Oct 2025 |
| 1.1.2 | 24 Oct 2025 |
| 2.4.5 | 20 Oct 2025 |
| 2.4.4 | 20 Oct 2025 |
| 2.4.3 | 16 Oct 2025 |
| 2.4.0 | 16 Oct 2025 |
| 2.3.12 | 15 Oct 2025 |
| 2.3.11 | 15 Oct 2025 |
| 2.3.10 | 14 Oct 2025 |
| 2.3.9 | 14 Oct 2025 |
| 2.3.8 | 14 Oct 2025 |
| 2.3.7 | 14 Oct 2025 |
| 2.3.6 | 14 Oct 2025 |
- Module format
- ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- >=20.16.0 <21 || >=22.3.0
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 20.3 MB
- Dependencies (2)
pdfjs-dist@napi-rs/canvas
npm install pdf-parseCDN
jsDelivr: 4.3m requests in 30 days
- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/pdf-parse@2.4.5/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/pdf-parse@2.4.5/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/pdf-parse@2.4.5
Indexability: Indexed.