How to parse PDF files in Postman

Published: 01 January 1970
on channel: Valentin Despa

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Welcome to another episode of Advanced Postman!

In this video, we cover how to parse text from PDF files using express js and node js modules, then validate the PDF text in the Postman test.

00:00 Intro
02:50 Express.js Script Review
05:10 Multipart/Form-Data Parse PDF
06:42 Base64 Parse PDF
07:25 URL Parse PDF

Use the PDF Parsing Collection Template below and follow along!

PDF Parsing Postman Template:
https://explore.postman.com/templates...

Stand up the node js web service using the following script below!
https://gist.github.com/odevodyssey/a...

Be sure to first have node.js installed along with node package manager (npm), and the following modules installed using:

npm install express
npm install body-parser
npm install pdf-parse
npm install crawler-request
npm install multer
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