I am using pdf.js to extract text from the pdf but the font name appears as g_d0_f6
etc. I need the font name to use the appropriate table for converting to Unicode. Here is the code derived from pdf2svg.js sample:-
var fs = require('fs');
var util = require('util');
var path = require('path');
var stream = require('stream');
// HACK few hacks to let PDF.js be loaded not as a module in global space.
require('./domstubs.js').setStubs(global);
var pdfjsLib = require('pdfjs-dist');
var pdfPath = process.argv[2] || '../../web/pressed.tracemonkey-pldi-09.pdf';
var data = new Uint8Array(fs.readFileSync(pdfPath));
var loadingTask = pdfjsLib.getDocument({
data: data,
nativeImageDecoderSupport: pdfjsLib.NativeImageDecoding.DISPLAY,
});
loadingTask.promise.then(function(doc) {
var lastPromise = Promise.resolve(); // will be used to chain promises
var loadPage = function (pageNum) {
return doc.getPage(pageNum).then(function (page) {
return page.getTextContent().then(function (textContent) {
console.log(textContent);
});
});
};
for (var i = 1; i <= doc.numPages; i++) {
lastPromise = lastPromise.then(loadPage.bind(null, i));
}
return lastPromise;
}).then(function () {
console.log('# End of Document');
}, function (err) {
console.error('Error: ' + err);
});
Sample output:-
{ items:
[ { str: 'bl fp=k osQ ckjs esa cPpksa ls ckrphr djsa & ;g LowQy esa fdl le; dk n`\'; gS\\ cPps',
dir: 'ltr',
width: 396.2250000000001,
height: 15,
transform: [Array],
fontName: 'g_d0_f1' },
{ str: 'D;k dj jgs gSa\\ cPps dkSu&dkSu ls [ksy] [ksy j',
dir: 'ltr',
width: 216.1650000000001,
height: 15,
transform: [Array],
fontName: 'g_d0_f1' },
{ str: 'g',
dir: 'ltr',
width: 6.42,
height: 15,
transform: [Array],
fontName: 'g_d0_f1' },
{ str: 's gSa\\ fp=k esa fdrus cPps gSa vkSj fdrus',
dir: 'ltr',
width: 173.865,
height: 15,
transform: [Array],
fontName: 'g_d0_f1' },
{ str: 'cM+s gSa\\ vkil esa dkSu D;k ckr dj jgk gksxk\\ cPpksa ls fp=k esa lcosQ fy, uke lkspus',
dir: 'ltr',
width: 396.54000000000013,
height: 15,
transform: [Array],
fontName: 'g_d0_f1' },
{ str: 'dks dgasaA',
dir: 'ltr',
width: 40.74,
height: 15,
transform: [Array],
fontName: 'g_d0_f1' },
{ str: 'csVh cpkvks',
dir: 'ltr',
width: 66.725,
height: 17,
transform: [Array],
fontName: 'g_d0_f2' },
{ str: 'csVh i<+kvksA',
dir: 'ltr',
width: 66.75899999999999,
height: 17,
transform: [Array],
fontName: 'g_d0_f2' },
{ str: '2018-19',
dir: 'ltr',
width: 36.690000000000005,
height: 10,
transform: [Array],
fontName: 'g_d0_f3' } ],
styles:
{ g_d0_f1:
{ fontFamily: 'sans-serif',
ascent: 0.837,
descent: -0.216,
vertical: false },
g_d0_f2:
{ fontFamily: 'sans-serif',
ascent: 0.786,
descent: -0.181,
vertical: false },
g_d0_f3:
{ fontFamily: 'sans-serif',
ascent: 0.9052734375,
descent: -0.2119140625,
vertical: false } } }
And here is the pdf that uses embedded fonts: .pdf
Here is a related question but the suggested monObjs is empty: pdf.js get info about embedded fonts
I am using pdf.js to extract text from the pdf but the font name appears as g_d0_f6
etc. I need the font name to use the appropriate table for converting to Unicode. Here is the code derived from pdf2svg.js sample:-
var fs = require('fs');
var util = require('util');
var path = require('path');
var stream = require('stream');
// HACK few hacks to let PDF.js be loaded not as a module in global space.
require('./domstubs.js').setStubs(global);
var pdfjsLib = require('pdfjs-dist');
var pdfPath = process.argv[2] || '../../web/pressed.tracemonkey-pldi-09.pdf';
var data = new Uint8Array(fs.readFileSync(pdfPath));
var loadingTask = pdfjsLib.getDocument({
data: data,
nativeImageDecoderSupport: pdfjsLib.NativeImageDecoding.DISPLAY,
});
loadingTask.promise.then(function(doc) {
var lastPromise = Promise.resolve(); // will be used to chain promises
var loadPage = function (pageNum) {
return doc.getPage(pageNum).then(function (page) {
return page.getTextContent().then(function (textContent) {
console.log(textContent);
});
});
};
for (var i = 1; i <= doc.numPages; i++) {
lastPromise = lastPromise.then(loadPage.bind(null, i));
}
return lastPromise;
}).then(function () {
console.log('# End of Document');
}, function (err) {
console.error('Error: ' + err);
});
Sample output:-
{ items:
[ { str: 'bl fp=k osQ ckjs esa cPpksa ls ckrphr djsa & ;g LowQy esa fdl le; dk n`\'; gS\\ cPps',
dir: 'ltr',
width: 396.2250000000001,
height: 15,
transform: [Array],
fontName: 'g_d0_f1' },
{ str: 'D;k dj jgs gSa\\ cPps dkSu&dkSu ls [ksy] [ksy j',
dir: 'ltr',
width: 216.1650000000001,
height: 15,
transform: [Array],
fontName: 'g_d0_f1' },
{ str: 'g',
dir: 'ltr',
width: 6.42,
height: 15,
transform: [Array],
fontName: 'g_d0_f1' },
{ str: 's gSa\\ fp=k esa fdrus cPps gSa vkSj fdrus',
dir: 'ltr',
width: 173.865,
height: 15,
transform: [Array],
fontName: 'g_d0_f1' },
{ str: 'cM+s gSa\\ vkil esa dkSu D;k ckr dj jgk gksxk\\ cPpksa ls fp=k esa lcosQ fy, uke lkspus',
dir: 'ltr',
width: 396.54000000000013,
height: 15,
transform: [Array],
fontName: 'g_d0_f1' },
{ str: 'dks dgasaA',
dir: 'ltr',
width: 40.74,
height: 15,
transform: [Array],
fontName: 'g_d0_f1' },
{ str: 'csVh cpkvks',
dir: 'ltr',
width: 66.725,
height: 17,
transform: [Array],
fontName: 'g_d0_f2' },
{ str: 'csVh i<+kvksA',
dir: 'ltr',
width: 66.75899999999999,
height: 17,
transform: [Array],
fontName: 'g_d0_f2' },
{ str: '2018-19',
dir: 'ltr',
width: 36.690000000000005,
height: 10,
transform: [Array],
fontName: 'g_d0_f3' } ],
styles:
{ g_d0_f1:
{ fontFamily: 'sans-serif',
ascent: 0.837,
descent: -0.216,
vertical: false },
g_d0_f2:
{ fontFamily: 'sans-serif',
ascent: 0.786,
descent: -0.181,
vertical: false },
g_d0_f3:
{ fontFamily: 'sans-serif',
ascent: 0.9052734375,
descent: -0.2119140625,
vertical: false } } }
And here is the pdf that uses embedded fonts: http://ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/ahhn101.pdf
Here is a related question but the suggested monObjs is empty: pdf.js get info about embedded fonts
Share Improve this question edited Feb 25, 2019 at 2:16 Md. Abu Taher 18.9k5 gold badges57 silver badges78 bronze badges asked Feb 11, 2019 at 12:32 HimanshuHimanshu 2,4543 gold badges25 silver badges42 bronze badges 1- 1 "I need the font name to use the appropriate table for converting to Unicode" - in general one cannot determine that from the font name at all. – mkl Commented Feb 24, 2019 at 16:58
2 Answers
Reset to default 4 +50Note: The answer below does not have anything to do with pdf.js, however it answers the question, Extract Font Name from PDF.
I did not find a solution yet, so I went ahead and grabbed mutool, which has has the following mand to get the font information per page.
mutool info -F input.pdf 0-2147483647
Then I grabbed the spawn
function, hacked the output through some regex and pattern matching to return the data.
const extractFontData = async str => {
const getMatches = str => {
const regex = /Page (\d+):\nFonts \((\d+)\):/;
const match = str.match(regex);
if (match) {
return { page: match[1], fonts: match[2] };
}
return {};
};
const singleFont = fontData => {
const match = fontData.match(/\+([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+[.,]?[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/);
return match && match[1];
};
return str
.split("Page ")
.map(singlePageData => {
const { page, fonts } = getMatches(`Page ` + singlePageData);
if (fonts) {
const split = singlePageData.split("\n").filter(e => e.length);
const fontList = split.slice(2).map(singleFont);
return { page, fonts, fontList };
}
})
.filter(e => e);
};
// Taken and adjusted from: https://stackoverflow./a/52611536/6161265
function run(...cmd) {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
var { spawn } = require("child_process");
var mand = spawn(...cmd);
var result = "";
mand.stdout.on("data", function(data) {
result += data.toString();
});
mand.on("close", function(code) {
resolve(result);
});
mand.on("error", function(err) {
reject(err);
});
});
}
async function wrapper(filePath) {
const data = await run("mutool", ["info", "-F", filePath, "0-2147483647"]);
return extractFontData(data);
}
Sample usage:
wrapper("ahhn101.pdf").then(data => console.log(data));
Result:
I think you were on the right track: page.monObjs
is where the actual font name is found. However, page.monObjs
only gets populated when the page's text/operators are accessed, so you'll find it empty if you look before that happens.