Turns popular document formats into plain text for searching, indexing, etc.
I began working on LockedArchive and really wanted a golang package that could extract text from PDF files.
There are some interesting packages available (such as UniDoc and docconv), but I prefer avoiding any non-golang dependencies and like the freedom of the Apache-2.0 license.
go get -u github.com/jonathan-robertson/textify
- Rus Cox for his incredibly helpful pdf package. I forked his package to have it return spaces since he was excluding them from output.