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pdf-parse

Pure TypeScript, cross-platform module for extracting text, images, and tabular data from PDFs. Run directly in your browser or in Node!

v2.4.5, 20 Oct 2025Apache-2.0ESM + CommonJSTypes: BundledPDF and documents
$ npm install pdf-parse

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
02.5m5m7.5m10mSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 8.5m (8 Sept 2026)Low 1.1m (23 Dec 2025)
Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

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

  1. v2 first release 2.1.1, 2 Oct 2025
  2. v1 first release 1.0.1, 7 Jan 2018
  3. v0 first release 0.0.1, 7 Jan 2018

Recent releases

VersionPublished
1.1.429 Oct 2025
1.1.325 Oct 2025
1.1.224 Oct 2025
2.4.520 Oct 2025
2.4.420 Oct 2025
2.4.316 Oct 2025
2.4.016 Oct 2025
2.3.1215 Oct 2025
2.3.1115 Oct 2025
2.3.1014 Oct 2025
2.3.914 Oct 2025
2.3.814 Oct 2025
2.3.714 Oct 2025
2.3.614 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-parse

CDN

jsDelivr: 4.3m requests in 30 days
  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/pdf-parse@2.4.5/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/pdf-parse@2.4.5/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/pdf-parse@2.4.5
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API, jsDelivr. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.