modesty/pdf2json

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converts binary PDF to JSON and text, for server-side PDF processing and command-line use. Zero dependency.

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Indexed issues: 73
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Dominant language: Java
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Last GitHub push: Sep 11, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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73 open issues indexed

parseBuffer ignores byteOffset - small PDFs read from the wrong memory Open

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modesty/pdf2json#427 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Something is wrong with the text width calculation Open

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modesty/pdf2json#426 · Opened Aug 10, 2026
`getRawTextContent` does not returns words' pieces in proper coordinate order Open

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modesty/pdf2json#421 · 7 comments · Opened Feb 28, 2026
many warnings in version 4.0.0 Open

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modesty/pdf2json#416 · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Unable to parse text from a valid pdf Open

help-wanted: type3-font not-supported

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modesty/pdf2json#363 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 9, 2024
How to detect the HLines correctly? Open

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modesty/pdf2json#331 · Opened Feb 17, 2024
fields with periods are truncated Open

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modesty/pdf2json#324 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 28, 2023
Height of texts Open

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modesty/pdf2json#304 · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 19, 2023
Unable to find other page content Open

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modesty/pdf2json#280 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 9, 2022
Scraping hyperlinks from pdf? Open

enhancement

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modesty/pdf2json#270 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 1, 2022
skips invisible form fields Open

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modesty/pdf2json#265 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 22, 2022
Get picture data in pdf? Open

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modesty/pdf2json#256 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 6, 2021
[feature] please include in "Texts" the font name or object id Open

enhancement

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modesty/pdf2json#252 · Opened Nov 24, 2021
FinCEN form cannot be converted Open

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modesty/pdf2json#236 · Opened Jul 15, 2021
Coordinates to millimeters Open

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modesty/pdf2json#232 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 18, 2021
Units of the dimension/some are missing? Open

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modesty/pdf2json#213 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 17, 2020
how to add a new font or style? Open

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modesty/pdf2json#211 · Opened Jul 15, 2020
getRawTextContent() returns text not found in pdfData.formImage Open

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modesty/pdf2json#209 · Opened Jun 26, 2020
issue: one text elements per character Open

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modesty/pdf2json#205 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened May 20, 2020
[Question] Targeted page number of Link Open

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modesty/pdf2json#198 · Opened Jan 14, 2020
text elements have incorrect y coordinates Open

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modesty/pdf2json#195 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 5, 2019
Best practices for pdf conversion Open

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modesty/pdf2json#187 · 1 comment · Opened May 6, 2019
TypeError: infoDict.has is not a function Open

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modesty/pdf2json#186 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 26, 2019
Get every Word instead of Row Open

enhancement not-supported

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modesty/pdf2json#185 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 25, 2019
Italic is not recognized Open

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modesty/pdf2json#175 · Opened Nov 17, 2018
Help: Take 150 seconds to parse Open

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modesty/pdf2json#168 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 25, 2018
Annotations / Field Names - Incorrect name for fields Open

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modesty/pdf2json#167 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 23, 2018
Can not read file Open

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modesty/pdf2json#160 · Opened May 23, 2018
Silent error on parse semi-transparent content Open

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modesty/pdf2json#157 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 15, 2018
Problem parsing PDF document, text not recognized. Open

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modesty/pdf2json#152 · 8 comments · Opened Apr 18, 2018
getRawTextContent() method not consistent in multiple sequential calls Open

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modesty/pdf2json#151 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 11, 2018
Merge algorithm is broken Open

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modesty/pdf2json#150 · Opened Apr 9, 2018
details:"Error: PDFDocument: stream must have data" Open

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modesty/pdf2json#143 · Opened Dec 13, 2017
Command 6: because expected 2 args, but received 0 args; skipping & Unhandled rejection: Error: Illegal character: 41 Open

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modesty/pdf2json#141 · Opened Sep 14, 2017
complete pdf content into json format Open

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modesty/pdf2json#140 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 27, 2017
not an issue: can I add form values and save the PDF? Open

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modesty/pdf2json#138 · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 18, 2017
pdfcanvas.js getCoords_ help Open

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modesty/pdf2json#137 · Opened Jul 14, 2017
'w' doesn't make sense Open

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modesty/pdf2json#136 · 5 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Jul 9, 2017
Does anyone support this module anymore? Open

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modesty/pdf2json#134 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 26, 2017
extracted data in the form of encoding format Open

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modesty/pdf2json#132 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 22, 2017
images from PDF Open

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modesty/pdf2json#127 · 1 comment · Opened May 29, 2017
Depend of PDF.js instead of storing an old copy Open

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modesty/pdf2json#126 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened May 21, 2017
Not parsing line correctly Open

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modesty/pdf2json#125 · Opened May 12, 2017
Converting json back to pdf (json2pdf?) Open

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modesty/pdf2json#124 · 1 comment · 13 reactions · Opened May 7, 2017
Possible to parse a subset of pdf? Open

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modesty/pdf2json#121 · 1 comment · Opened May 6, 2017
what's meaning about 'w' and 'sw' Open

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modesty/pdf2json#118 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 23, 2017
Facing issue in fetching actual text? Open

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modesty/pdf2json#116 · Opened Apr 6, 2017
pdfjson not generate js file when using Chinese spdf Open

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modesty/pdf2json#115 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 24, 2017
Character Conversion changed after a certain PDF Open

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modesty/pdf2json#114 · Opened Mar 13, 2017
how to free memory used by pdf2json? Open

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modesty/pdf2json#113 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 20, 2017

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