Parsing PDFs at Scale with Node.js, PDF.js, and Lunr.js

Technologies used: Vagrant + Virtualbox, Node.js, node-static, Lunr.js, node-lazy, phantomjs Much information is trapped inside PDFs, and if you want to analyze it you’ll need a tool that extracts the text contents. If you’re processing many PDFs (XX millions), this takes time but parallelizes naturally. I’ve only seen this done on the JVM, and decided …