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GroupDocs.Parser for Node.js via Java provides the functionality to extract data from documents on the local disk. Pass the file path to the Parser constructor.

The following example shows how to load the document from the local disk:

const groupdocs = require('@groupdocs/groupdocs.parser');

// Set the file path
const filePath = 'sample.pdf';
// Create an instance of Parser class with the file path
const parser = new groupdocs.Parser(filePath);
try {
  // Extract a text into the reader
  const reader = parser.getText();
  // If text extraction isn't supported, a reader is null
  if (reader === null) {
    console.log("Text extraction isn't supported");
  } else {
    try {
      // Print a text from the document
      console.log(reader.readToEnd());
    } finally {
      reader.close();
    }
  }
} finally {
  parser.close();
}
process.exit(0);

A relative path is resolved against the current working directory of the Node.js process. Use path.join(__dirname, 'sample.pdf') to resolve the path against the script folder.

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You are welcome to parse documents and extract data from PDF, DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, Emails and more with our Free Online Document Parser App.