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pdfreader

Read text and parse tables from PDF files. Supports tabular data with automatic column detection, and rule-based parsing.

v3.0.8, 1 Nov 2025MITESM + CommonJSTypes: BundledParsers and serialisersPDF and documents
$ npm install pdfreader

Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
49.4k
+8% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
1
Direct, from package.json
Last release
10 months ago
v3.0.8
GitHub stars
703
89 forks
Open issues / PRs
5 / 2
Contributors
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
1

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
025k50k75k100kSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 98.9k (21 Jul 2026)Low 26.1k (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.

49,411 downloads last week, 228,906 in the last month. The 12-month change of +8% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Releases, last 12 months
-
Latest version
3.0.8, 1 Nov 202510 months ago
First published
-
Last push to GitHub
21 Jan 2026246 days before the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
5
Open pull requests
2
Commits, last 52 weeks
1
Dependents on npm
53

Major versions

-

Recent releases

-

Module format
ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
Bundled
Node.js engine range
>=14
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
58 kB
Dependencies (1)
pdf2json
npm install pdfreader
  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/pdfreader@3.0.8/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/pdfreader@3.0.8/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/pdfreader@3.0.8
PackageWeekly downloadsGzipLast releaseModuleComparison
@opendataloader/pdf12.1k-3 days agoESM + CommonJS-
pptx-text-parser6.6k-3 years agoCommonJS-
export-from-json64.8k-1 month agoESM + CommonJS-
@libpdf/core92.9k-24 days agoESM only-
excel-formula-tokenizer15.9k-4 years agoCommonJS-
node-pptx-parser9.4k-1 year agoESM + CommonJS-
@firecrawl/pdf-inspector-wasm7k-2 days agoESM only-
pptx-viewer-core17.2k-todayESM + CommonJS-
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

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